Azza

Twelve-year-old Azza is caught between two cultures – the liberal culture of her Dutch mother and the strict Islamic culture of her Egyptian father.  More...

Youth - Documentary

16'

Global Zoom Award, Film Festival Seatle 2012

Twelve-year-old Azza is caught between two cultures – the liberal culture of her Dutch mother and the strict Islamic culture of her Egyptian father. She goes to an Islamic primary school and after the summer she will be going to grammar school, where hardly anyone wears a headscarf. Will she stay loyal to her father’s culture or will the headscarf go?

Youth
Saskia Gubbels
2014
Hollandse Helden
16'
KRO-NCRV