De nit, elles ballen (At night, they dance), is a Canadian documentary (2010) directed per Isabelle Lavigne and Stephanie Tribault which tells the story of a working class family in Cairo. A clan of women where the art of dance is passed from mothers to daughters. The matriarch leads both the business of belly dancing and her family, sometimes gently and sometimes with an iron fist.
The meeting point of the film is a small apartment in which complaints and appeals of the daughters flourish and disagreements occur between characters. It is also a place of tenderness, vulnerability, fear and chaos for these women in search of a better life. The film version is offered with Catalan subtitles.
