Ain't No Time for Women

Ain't No Time for Women (French: Y'a pas d'heure pour les femmes) is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Sarra El Abed and released in 2021.[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]

Ain't No Time for Women
FrenchY'a pas d'heure pour les femmes
Directed bySarra El Abed
Written bySarra El Abed
Produced byMaud Christiane
Isabelle Grignon-Francke
CinematographyCatherine Lefebvre
Edited byJordan Choinière
Production
company
Travelling Distribution
Release date
Running time
19 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesArabic
French

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]

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