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This documentary is about a crate maker named N'amat. She is the simple and humble mother of six kids. Life has a tight grip on her and her existence is that of harshness and suffering. Two of her kids are deaf and mute and this adds salt to the injury. The crate with its wooden bars symbolizes her economic as well as her social condition. Nevertheless she is made of steel. She tries consistently to overcome the obstacles; she sends her kids to school and attempts to get them out of this hard profession. She looks for a better future for her kids in spite of the limited potentialities she is permitted. N'amat yearns for setting herself and her kids free from the crate that she is caged in. Although she does not succeed, she does not stop. She sees that not only her is imprisoned within the crate, every man is imprisoned within a crate of some sort.

Egypt - 2007 - 20 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Shereen Ghieth Writer Shereen Ghieth Camera Wail Youssef Sound Shereen Ghieth Editing Samer Mady Music Amr Abo Zakry

Production Nile Thematic Channels Sector ARTU, Kornish Elneel Street, Masbiro, Caire, Egypte Tél : +202 01 2575 7883 Fax : +202 01 2579 9918 E-mail : shereen_ghieth@hotmail.com

Sales Nile Thematic Channels Sector ARTU, Kornish Elneel Street, Masbiro, Caire, Egypte Tél : +202 01 2575 7883 Fax : +202 01 2579 9918 E-mail : shereen_ghieth@hotmail.com