The Lebanese-American director Oualid Mouaness is ready to write down and direct the difference of Bilqiss, a novel by Saphia Azzeddine, for the American film-production firm Kennedy/Marshall, and Khadija Alami’s Okay Movies.
The venture follows a rebellious girl, referred to as Bilqiss, who decides sooner or later to take her life into her personal arms as she objects to extremism.
The storyline unfolds between New York and the Center East, specializing in robust girls who problem their setting and tradition and battle extremism.
The novel displays the creator’s anger in opposition to the suppression of ladies within the Center East whereas additionally criticizing the western rush misjudgments of different cultures.
Saphia Azzeddine is a French-Moroccan author, actress, and screenwriter, who additionally labored as a journalist. She revealed her first profitable novel, Confidences à Allah in 2005. She wrote and directed the movie Mon père est femme de ménage in 2011, an adaptation of her second novel revealed in 2009.
She launched a number of novels afterward, resulting in the publication of her novel Bilqiss in 2015.
As per Deadline, Oualid Mouaness will direct and write the script of Bilqiss in collaboration with Saphia Azzeddine.
The Kennedy/Marshall Firm will produce the venture together with Okay Movies, and the venture might be shot within the U.S. and at Alami’s Studios in Morocco.
Oualid Mouaness is finest identified for his function movie, 1982, which starred Nadine Labaki and has began screening in film theaters within the U.S. as of June tenth.
The movie gained many awards, particularly on the 2021 Cannes Movie Pageant, the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant (TIFF), and the Murex D’Or 2021, amongst others.
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