Salma, My Love

49 rue du Coudray, Nantes

Salma, twenty, daughter of a wealthy Cairo family, films her life on TikTok and everything seems fine. Until the violence of the world shatters the screen. A figure of Mediterranean theater, Ahmed El Attar signs a family and political tragedy, as piercing as it is lucid, which will be presented at the Avignon Festival this summer. October 2023. Around Salma, there is commotion: her brother Karim is married to a wealthy American woman (apparently more for the money than for love). On her screen, reels of beauty routines scroll as a more warlike reality unfolds. The only one to see the horror …