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Dry Hot Summers

OT: Har... Gaf... Sayfan

Sharif El Bendary | Germany, Egypt 2015

Short | 30 min | FF2016

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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