The film attempts to examine the issue of women and modernisation, women and body, women and power through songs and segments from the lives of singers such as Munira el Mahdeya, Om Kulthoum among others. When a Woman Sings seeks to link and compare the past with the present.


dir. Moustapha Hasnaoui (born in Tunisia)

Egypt, 2004, doc, 52'

Subtitles:
English, French

Production:
Misr International Films, Ognon Pictures, Zentropa, Les Fils Chafic Fathallah

Producers:
Gabriel Khoury, Marianne Khoury, Humbert Balsan

Director of Photography:
Tamer Joseph

Editing:
Dalia El Nasser

Mixing:
Gomaa Abdel Latif

Production Manager:
Maged Youssef

Sound:
Hassan Abou Gabal, Khaled Romani