The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni: A Film by Rania Stephan

Watch “The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni,” a film by Rania Stephan at Bardo. The film is in Arabic with English subtitles.

Synopsis
The film is a rapturous elegy to a rich era of film production in Egypt, lapsed today, through one of its most revered actress: Soad Hosni, who from the 1960s into the 90s, embodied the modern Arab woman in her complexity and paradoxes.

Pieced exclusively from VHS footage of films starring Soad Hosni, the film is constructed as a tragedy in three acts where the actress tells her dreamed life story. Irreverent, playful, marvelous, serious, the film proposes a singular rewriting of a golden period of Egyptian cinema, enacted by an exceptional artist, tragic star, symbol of modern Arab womanhood.