‘Spring Came on Laughing’ Director and Producer on Revealing the Secrets of Egyptian Women’s Lives and Why Flowers Dictated the Schedule

variety.com:

John Bleasdale Guest Contributor “Spring Came on Laughing,” the only Egyptian film in competition at the Cairo Film Festival, is the debut feature of Noha Adel.

It is rich in music and messy, full of noisy life, taking the form of a series of conversations between women where a drama rapidly escalates into a jumble of tragedy and dark humor.

The film’s wisdom might come from the fact that Adel came to directing later in life. She was in her late forties when she began her first shorts. “I worked in an office nine to five,” she tells Variety. “I did a three-month workshop about the principles of directing, and they asked me for a graduation project.

It was just a fun workshop, because I love cinema as a viewer. For this graduation project, I did it with my family and friends in one day.