Egyptian Director Sara Shazli’s ‘Your Daughter’ Charts Young Filmmaker’s Struggle to Confront Painful Past
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Egyptian filmmaker Sara Shazli will be presenting her latest documentary, “Your Daughter,” during the Venice Production Bridge’s Final Cut workshop for films in post-production from Africa and the Arab world.
The director’s sophomore feature is a deeply personal story about her struggle to emerge from the long shadow cast by her mother, powerhouse producer and filmmaker Marianne Khoury, while also preparing to become a first-time mom.
It follows the 32-year-old filmmaker, who — obsessed with the idea of severing the umbilical cord that still connects her to her workhorse mother — moves out from her childhood home in downtown Cairo to live in a small house in the suburbs.
While overseeing its construction, she remembers her childhood and the Ethiopian nanny who raised her, setting in motion an emotional journey to wrestle with the lingering pain of her mother’s absence from her life growing up.
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