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Bernard Alba's Household

5 girls forced into a mourning period of 8 years by their rigid mother and how that pushes them into deprivation and isolation

an adaptation of a play by Federico Garcia Lorca. After her husband's death, Bernarda Alba imposes eight years mourning period upon her household as the tradition runs in her family. In a household of 5 girls their mother and their grandma the tension and the deprivation arise as the mourning period isolate them from the rest of the village and deprive them of any male contact.

Directed by Fattoh Nashaty