Ain't No Time for Women | |
Native Name: | |
Director: | Sarra El Abed |
Producer: | Maud Christiane Isabelle Grignon-Francke |
Cinematography: | Catherine Lefebvre |
Editing: | Jordan Choinière |
Studio: | Travelling Distribution |
Runtime: | 19 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | Arabic French |
Ain't No Time for Women (French: Y'a pas d'heure pour les femmes) is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Sarra El Abed and released in 2021.[1] The film centres on a group of women in a hair salon in Tunis, and their reactions to the 2019 Tunisian presidential election.[1]
The film premiered at the 2021 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.[2] It had its Canadian premiere at the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it won the Betty Youson Award for Best Canadian Short Documentary,[3] and it was the winner of the Short Documentary Award at the 2021 DOXA Documentary Film Festival.[4]
The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2021.[5]