Reflecting on her journey from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, to then New York, Sultana tells of the challenges of performing drag in conservative societies, her nostalgia for the glory days, the glamour of Egyptian cinema icons, and her struggle to prove her existence and her self-expression as a performer and artist.
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/ Details
Year: 2023
Country: Lebanon
Language: arabic
Subtitles: english
With: Sultana of New York, Ridikkuluz
/ Direction
Hadi Moussally
Lebanon, France
Hadi Moussally is a Lebanese-French filmmaker. He holds a master’s degree in Fiction Cinema and another in Documentary and Anthropological Cinema in Paris universities. In 2015 he co-founded the production company h7o7, whose main objective is to enable film and photography with hybrid vocation.
Filmography
2023 – Sultana’s Reign (Short Documentary)