Ain't No Time for Women explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Yasmine Al-Sayyad, "Politics and Resilience in a Tunis Salon". The New Yorker, November 24, 2021.
  2. André Duchesne, "Forte présence québécoise à Clermont-Ferrand". La Presse, January 26, 2021.
  3. Debra Yeo, "Canadian documentary ‘zo reken’ on the international aid industrial complex wins Hot Docs award". Toronto Star, May 10, 2021.
  4. Charlie Smith, "Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers wins best Canadian director and Father wins best feature documentary at DOXA festival". The Georgia Straight, May 14, 2021.
  5. Norman Wilner, "TIFF announces Canada’s Top Ten films of 2021" . Now, December 6, 2021.