Heiny Srour

Heiny Srour was born in 1945 in Beirut, into a Jewish family. She studied sociology in her home city, then prepared a doctorate in social anthropology at the Sorbonne and attended Jean Rouch's direct cinema course at Nanterre. A journalist and film critic, she made a three-minute short film, then in 1974, with a documentary shot in war-torn Dhofar, became the first Arab woman director shown at Cannes. In 1978, with Selma Baccar and Magda Wassef, she founded a prize for first films by Arab women.

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• CinemaLeila and the Wolvesليلى والذئابHeiny Srour · 1984Cinema