Arabic-Italian Drama ‘The Goat,’ Featuring Mira Sorvino and John Savage, Set For El Gouna and Rome Launches – Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian multi-hyphenate Ilaria Borrelli’s Arabic-language feminist drama “The Goat” – featuring Mira Sorvino and John Savage, alongside a stellar Egyptian cast – is set for back-to-back launches at Egypt’s upcoming El Gouna Film Festival, followed by the closing film slot at the Rome Film Festival.
A rare, if not unique, case of an Arab production directed by an Italian, “The Goat” stars young Egyptian TikTok star Jessica Hosam as an 11-year-old pregnant orphan named Hadya who after being forced into marriage becomes the target of a western corporation that seeks to control the only water source in her village.
She escapes into the desert with her goat on a journey in search of her father. See trailer above “She takes the road to freedom alone with her goat whose milk she will use to survive.
Sometimes when she drinks the milk she feels her mum is talking to her,” according to the film’s provided logline. This film aims to question “‘civilised western countries’ – and all of us who live in them – about our role in the appropriation of the natural resources of poorer countries,” Borrelli said in a statement. “The Goat” also shines a spotlight “On barbaric traditions still practiced in so many areas of the world that devastate the young women and girls in these communities, such as marriage by abduction, gang rape, deadly childbirth conditions and obstetric fistula,” she went on to note.
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