Kiss Me Not on the Eyes

2005 · Movie · 112 min. · Egypt

Drama

After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects.

Direction Jocelyn Saab

Cast Hanan Turk · Mohamed Mounir · Fathy Abdel Wahab · Sawsan Badr · Khaled El Sawy · Youssef Ismail · Aida Riad