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The Closed Doors
Atef Hatata - Egypt - 1999 - 105m - 35mm - drama
In Arabic with English subtitles
Set during the Gulf war, this engrossing feature debut by Atef Hetata
centers on a teenage boy, Mohamad, caught in an ever-tightening vise between
his incestuous longings for his mother and the authoritarian temptations of a
local religious leader. Mohamad lives alone with his strong-minded and loving
mother, after his father abandoned the two of them and Mohamad's older brother
who is in the army, to start a new family. When Mohamad's high school teacher
begins to court his mother, Mohamad's feelings of betrayal escalate and push
him to embrace fundamentalist ideas as a way of dealing with the confusion of
adolescence and sexual awakening. The Closed Doors touches on several taboos in
contemporary Egyptian society, examining their social and political
implications.
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