{
  "id": 15722254,
  "title": "‘Big Boys Don’t Cry’ Director Muhammad Mustapha Talks Masculinity Ahead of El Gouna Premiere: ‘The Only Emotion Men Are Allowed to Express Is Anger’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/big-boys-dont-cry-director-muhammad-mustapha-talks-masculinity-ahead",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-20T08:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/global/big-boys-dont-cry-muhammad-mustapha-el-gouna-1236916813/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Egyptian filmmaker Muhammad Mustapha’s “Big Boys Don’t Cry” follows a group of Cairo bodybuilders and nightclub bouncers, offering a view into how men understand and perform masculinity. The documentary, which had its world premiere in the Feature Documentary Competition at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival, grew out of Mustapha’s curiosity about this particular group of […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}