Synopse
SHORT On a hot summer's day, in a Cairo taxi the paths of Shawky and Doa cross. He's a frail old man suffering from cancer on his way to a foreign specialist. She's making the final arrangements for her wedding that evening. A friendship develops between these two people at completely different stages of their lives. In the summer heat of the congested, dusty metropolis, they spend a day together and discover their lives anew. A tragi-comic story and a portrait of a megacity on the brink of asphyxia.
Regie
Sherif El-Bendary (*1978) is a graduate of the Institute for Applied Arts in Cairo and startedwork as a textile engineer. He later studied film direction and today makesboth documentary and fictional shorts.
Info
Original Title: Har... Gaf... Sayfan
International Title: Dry Hot Summers
Category: Short
Section: Kaleidoskop
Version & Subtitles: Arabic OV with English subtitles
Director: Sharif El Bendary
Screenplay: Nura El-Sheikh
Production country: Germany, Egypt
Year of Production: 2015
Length: 30 min
Producer: Claudia Jubeh
Production company: subtype productions, Red Star Films
Cinematography: Victor Credi
Editor: Ahmed Maher
World Sales: Abdallah Al Shami, mec film
Distributor: Irit Neidhardt





