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SUMMARY:Maghreb Film Festival: Take My Breath
DTSTAMP:20260925T184453Z
DTSTART:20261101T130000Z
DESCRIPTION:Twenty-three-year-old Shams works as a seamstress and lives a q
	uiet life\,\ncarefully keeping her intersex identity hidden from those aro
	und her. When her\nsecret is exposed\, the fragile balance of her life col
	lapses. Caught between\ndesire\, love and the rigid expectations of her su
	rroundings\, Shams is forced to\nleave her home and seek refuge in Tunis.\
	n\nWith Take My Breath\, Nada Mezni Hafaiedh explores the difficult tensio
	n between\npersonal identity and the social norms imposed on the body. Sha
	ms’ journey\nbecomes a story about the right to define yourself\, even whe
	n the world around\nyou refuses to accept anything that falls outside its 
	familiar boundaries.\n\nThe film premiered at the Warsaw International Fil
	m Festival and went on to win\nawards at the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival 
	and the International Oriental Film\nFestival of Geneva. It was also selec
	ted as Tunisia’s entry for the 2025 Academy\nAwards.
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/maghreb-film-festival-take-my-breath
GEO:52.3630433;4.8828596
LOCATION:De Balie - Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10\, 1017 RR Amsterdam
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,cinema,emancipatie & identiteit,festivals,film
	,leidseplein,stories
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Twenty-three-year-old Shams works as a seam
	stress and lives a quiet life, carefully keeping her intersex identity hid
	den from those around her. When her secret is exposed, the fragile balance
	 of her life collapses. Caught between desire, love and the rigid expectat
	ions of her surroundings, Shams is forced to leave her home and seek refug
	e in Tunis.</p> <p>With <em>Take My Breath</em>, Nada Mezni Hafaiedh explo
	res the difficult tension between personal identity and the social norms i
	mposed on the body. Shams’ journey becomes a story about the right to defi
	ne yourself, even when the world around you refuses to accept anything tha
	t falls outside its familiar boundaries.</p> <p>The film premiered at the 
	Warsaw International Film Festival and went on to win awards at the Rotter
	dam Arab Film Festival and the International Oriental Film Festival of Gen
	eva. It was also selected as Tunisia’s entry for the 2025 Academy Awards.<
	/p>
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