Ain't No Time for Women

Ain't No Time for Women
French	Y'a pas d'heure pour les femmes
Directed by	Sarra El Abed
Written by	Sarra El Abed
Produced by	Maud Christiane Isabelle Grignon-Francke
Cinematography	Catherine Lefebvre
Edited by	Jordan Choinière
Production company	Travelling Distribution
Release date	February 6, 2021 (2021-02-06) (Clermont-Ferrand)
Running time	19 minutes
Country	Canada
Languages	Arabic French

Ain't No Time for Women (French: Y'a pas d'heure pour les femmes) is a 2021 Canadian short documentary film, directed by Sarra El Abed.^[1] The film centres on a group of women in a hair salon in Tunis, and their reactions to the 2019 Tunisian presidential election.^[1]

The film premiered at the 2021 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.^[2] It had its Canadian premiere at the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it won the Betty Youson Award for Best Canadian Short Documentary,^[3] and it was the winner of the Short Documentary Award at the 2021 DOXA Documentary Film Festival.^[4]

The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2021.^[5]

References

1. Yasmine Al-Sayyad, "Politics and Resilience in a Tunis Salon". The New Yorker, November 24, 2021.
2. André Duchesne, "Forte présence québécoise à Clermont-Ferrand". La Presse, January 26, 2021.
3. Debra Yeo, "Canadian documentary ‘zo reken’ on the international aid industrial complex wins Hot Docs award". Toronto Star, May 10, 2021.
4. Charlie Smith, "Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers wins best Canadian director and Father wins best feature documentary at DOXA festival". The Georgia Straight, May 14, 2021.
5. Norman Wilner, "TIFF announces Canada’s Top Ten films of 2021" Archived 2021-12-06 at the Wayback Machine. Now, December 6, 2021.

External links

• Ain't No Time for Women at IMDb