Ein Shams • FILMFEST HAMBURG

Eye of the Sun

OT: Ein Shams

Ibrahim El Batout // Egypt, Morocco, 2008
Fiction Feature // FF2008

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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.

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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

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