"Dreams of Hind and Camilia"
1989
Directed by Mohamed Khan

Two women attempt to break free from the brutality and hopelessness of their impoverished lives in Cairo. The women, housemaids abused by their employers and male family members, decide to make new lives for themselves, starting "a friendship which invents a whole new relationship, a whole new family together, just the two of them...a sisterhood unusual in Arab cinema" (Lizbeth Malkmus and Roy Armes, Arab & African Film Making). Arabic with English subtitles. 110 minutes.