‘About Her’ Director Islam El Azzazi on His Organic Approach to Development
Kaleem Aftab “About Her,” which world premiered in International Competition this week at the Cairo Film Festival, began life as a short story, which director Islam El Azzazi penned in 2003. In 2017, he started adapting the story for the screen.“The short story faded, somehow,” he says of the changes he made in the process.