SUGAR ON THE SIDE

Egypt, summer 2013. As a political regime falls and another rises, Nehmedo, Hanan, and many other women float between the dream of bettering their situation through temporary marriages with Gulf men, and everyday life of poverty, discrimination and violence in a village in Giza, southwest of Cairo. „Sugar on the side“ is Basel Ramsis‘ – an
Egyptian/Spanish documentary filmmaker, writer and lecturer based in Spain – third film as a director.