Emily Atef, the acclaimed German-born French Iranian filmmaker behind 2023 Berlin Golden Bear contender “Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything,” is in post-production on her next film, the Kenya-set female-empowerment drama “Call Me Queen.” The director will be presenting the project during the Venice Gap-Financing Market, which takes place Aug. 29 – 31.
“Call Me Queen” tells the story of a fearless woman from Nairobi’s largest slum who finds unexpected kinship with an Irish journalist living in the Kenyan capital. Set in the late-’90s, as the AIDS epidemic is decimating impoverished communities, the film follows the unlikely duo as they find themselves on the frontline of a battle far
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