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Lamada

Lamada

1999 · 115 min · Drama

Lamia is an active girl also known as Lamada, who graduates from university, but fails to find a job and finds herself unemployed for several years. She takes matters into her own hands and decides to go into the desert with a few friends to cultivate a patch of it and build a community of their own. However, this angers some senior officials and they try to seize their project.

Directed by Mohamed Abdelaziz · Written by Mohamed El Hamawi

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