The London-born film director Zeina Durra, who has a Bosnian-Palestinian mother and Jordanian-Lebanese father, is a wizard of cultural intersections. I first met her in 2011 on the altar of a deconsecrated cloister with Islamic arches in Venice where the Renaissance painter Tintoretto is buried. Durra was getting married, and she wore a headdress inspired by a family bracelet made of ancient Greek, Ottoman, and Byzantine coins.
DURRA: I didn’t know what the film was, but I knew I had to make it. The next day I called Zelmira [Gainza] who is a friend and cinematographer and I told her about this image and feeling. I started to unpack the emotions of the woman I had seen in the dream. By the end of the conversation, she was ready to shoot. Instinctively, I called this Egyptian producer, and he happened to be in London for the London Film Festival, and we met for a coffee.
Can you wear that? That’s so short! That red leather skirt with tassels was cool in the East Village when you were 20, but now?
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