Egypt's most scandalous '94 teen panic — disco, drugs, and moral hysteria on full display.
In a mixed high school, Sayed Abu Dahab leads a group of students who spend their nights at the disco,spreading among them addiction and customary marriage, and their school principal tries to fix things.
Direction
Inas El Degheidy's provocative, government-censored filmmaking.
Acting
Naglaa Fathy's gloriously unhinged principal performance.
Production
Authentic '90s Cairo nightclub aesthetic, deeply cursed.
Director
Inas El Degheidy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Egypt's conservative Islamist resurgence, this film was part of state-sponsored 'virtue' cinema that simultaneously condemned and titillated audiences.
Director Inas El Degheidy was frequently targeted by censors despite making films the establishment technically approved of — she called it 'dancing on a tightrope over hell.'
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