The gender revolution hits the Arab world in "The Source"

CANNES, France - a village isolated in North Africa, women use the only weapon, they have - sex - and pass a "strike of love" which challenges traditional gender roles.

Arab director Radu Mih?ileanu, said that he sees that the revolt of fictional sex described in his new film "The Source" as essential to the success of the popular uprisings that toppled dictators in Tunisia and Egypt this year and is still consumer across the world.

"The second revolution is necessary, it seems to me, is a home, which will be born of the equality of the sexes in the private sphere" Mihaileanu told journalists Saturday at the Cannes Festival, where the film is competing for the award of excellencethe Palme d'Or.

Mih?ileanu said that the film was inspired by a story about women in a Turkey village which, enough of their traditional task of fetching water from a remote well began to retain old sex for ten years.

"(Cette_histoire) showed in such wonderful light." These women are combative, filled with light and humor, "said Mihaileanu, adding that even if he had fallen in love with the story, he did not originally plan for the film itself.

"As I am a woman, or an Arab, not legitimate me," said French Director born in Romanian behind the 1997 struck a "Train of life" and 2004 "screw and become".

First, he thought he would produce it and find a filmmaker of Arab women to lead.

"But I found an and that is me, pitching all kept saying, 'tell you this story so well, why don't do you'." So ultimately I have done, "he says.

Accuracy and credibility has become the Holy Grail, in all areas of the line of conspiracy for sets and costumes. Players and the team spent a month in the city of Morocco where the film was shot, dealing with the life of village and learning the local dialect.

The casting was chosen from across the Arab world and includes Algerian diva Biyouna, Palestinians Hiam Abbas and Saleh Bakri and rising star of the Hafsia quarter Herzi French, whose parents are of the Tunisia and the Algeria. Still, one of the main characters is played by a Moroccan, thus casting had to work with the coaches down focus.

Leila Bekhti, a raven haired actress French of Algerian origin who plays the main character in the film, said that its learning curve is steep.

"I used to speak of the Algerian, but I had lost almost everything," said.

Still, she said that the story had touched him deeply.

"For me, this film is an ode to love, it is a film on altruism, on others, our ability to love one another, to listen and to understand the other," Bekhti said. "I think this is one of the greatest problems of the world - we look at one another, we don't listen to each other.".