Salma, my love

49 rue du Coudray, Nantes

Salma, twenty years old, daughter of a wealthy Cairo family, films her life on TikTok and everything seems fine. Until the violence of the world shakes the screen. A Mediterranean theatre figure, Ahmed El Attar, signs a family and political tragedy that is as piercing as it is lucid and will be staged at the Avignon Festival this summer. October 2023. Around Salma, deeds swirl: her brother Karim is married to a wealthy American woman (apparently more for money than love). On her screen, beauty routine reels alternate with a harsher reality. The only one who sees the horror of what is unfoldi…