Eye of the Sun
OT: Ein Shams
Ibrahim El Batout // Egypt, Morocco, 2008
Fiction Feature // FF2008
Story
Cairo, today. Many stories, many people and many aspirations. Eleven-year-old Shams dreams of a visit to the glittering centre of town. Her father Ramadan is overworked as a taxi-driver and chauffeur of millionaire Selim Bey, whose bankruptcy is immanent. Ramadan’s nephew Omar wants to emigrate to Italy while the doctor Mariam studies the relationship between cancer and uranium radiation. The film was shot without a script, directly on location with lay actors, putting it on the index in Cairo.
Director
Info
Ein Shams
Fiction Feature
Arabic
Agenda 08//FF2008
Egypt, Morocco
2008
90 min
OV
Ibrahim El Batout
Tamer El Said, Ibrahim El Batout
Hanan Youssef, Boutros Boutros-Ghaly, Ramadan Khater, Hanan Adel
Sherif Mandour
Hesham Farouk
Ahmad Abdala
Amir Khalaf
Film House Egypt, 51 A Demashk Street Mohandessine, 11241 Cairo, Egypt, Tel: +20 3370 802, email: sherifmandour(at)gmail.com
Film House Egypt; Moroccan Cinema Center