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Venice Competition Filmmaker May El-Toukhy On Gender Imbalance: “I’ve Been The Only Woman In Many, Many Settings”
May el-Toukhy is in competition at the Venice Film Festival with post-World War Two psychological thriller Woman Unknown as one of just two female directors in the running for the Golden Lion this year. Set in Denmark in the summer of…
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