The Trace of the Butterfly

Synopsis

What does a butterfly leave behind when it crosses the air around us? How do we feel its trace that never goes away? The film begins with the Maspero massacre in Egypt in October 2011, which left 27 Coptic Christian demonstrators dead. Among those killed was the “Guevara of the Egyptian Revolution,” Mina Daniel. His sister Mary takes us on a two-year journey of the Egyptian Revolution–two years of frustration and triumph, of more and more deaths, and the feeling of the perpetual absence and ever presence of the departed. The Trace of the Butterfly is the story of people crossing our lives, then leaving, only for us to discover, after a while, that they have re-formulated our beings.

Director Biography

Amal Ramsis is an Egyptian filmmaker. In 1993, she graduated from the Faculty of Law in Cairo, after which she worked as a lawyer for three years. In 1992, she participated in founding the Women’s Studies Centre, Maan (together), in Egypt. In 2002, she obtained a grant from the Spanish Foreign Ministry to study film directing at the Septima Ars Cinema School in Madrid, completing her studies in 2005.