'Lift Like A Girl': Review | Reviews
By Wendy Ide2020-12-21T14:09:00+00:00 Behind the scenes at Egypt’s unorthodox training camp for champion female weightlifters ‘Lift Like A Girl’ Dir/scr. Mayya Zayed. Egypt, Germany, Denmark. 2020. 92 mins Filmed over the course of four years, this scattershot but engaging documentary follows Zebiba (’raisin’ in Arabic), the latest potential Egyptian female weight-lighting champion to come from the stable of unorthodox coach Captain Ramadan. In fact, to call it a stable is misleading in that it suggests that the Captain’s training facilities have a roof. Rather, the wizened, blu...
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