Completed - ARABIC - First film, Historical, Documentary - 118 minutes
Losing everything he loves, Khalid struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Tamer EL SAID Writer(s) : Tamer EL SAID, Rasha SALTI Cast : Khalid ABDALLA Producer(s) : Tamer EL SAID, Khalie ABDALLA
This film within a film is a haunting, lyrical chronicle of recent years in the Arab world, where revolutions seemed to spark hope for change and yield further instability in one stroke. Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, The Square) plays the protagonist of Tamer El Said’s ambitious feature debut, a filmmaker in Cairo attempting to capture the zeitgeist of his city as the world changes around him—from personal love and loss to the fall of the Mubarak regime. Throughout, friends send footage and stories from Berlin, Baghdad, and Beirut, creating a powerful, multilayered meditation on togetherness, the tangible hold of cities, and the meaning of homeland. Shot in 2008 and completed in 2016, the film explores the weight of cinematic images as record and storytelling in an ongoing time of change.
Country(ies) : EGYPT, GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
This list is based on the distributors’ declarations. In the case where you don't agree about one of them, please inform us of the change(s) you request by clicking here.
Berlinale - EFM 2016 (Caligari Film Award)Era New Horizons - Poland 2016 (Grand Prix)Festival de 3 Continents 2016 (Grand Prix)BAFICI 2016 (Best Director)