Story
In the heart of Islam: a thriller set in the al-Azhar University in Cairo reveals Egyptian society as heavily influenced by power games. For Adam, son of a simple fisherman, a dream has come true – he has won a scholarship to study at the renowned al-Azhar University, the epicentre of the Islamic world. When the dean suddenly dies in front of his students, a power struggle begins to decide his successor. The dubious civil servant Ibrahim takes on Adam as an informer, thus placing him firmly between the country’s political and religious elites, but also putting him in deadly danger.
Sweden’s official entry for the 2023 Academy Awards
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Director
TARIK SALEH (*1972 in Stockholm) has Egyptian roots and works as a director, animator, graffiti artist, producer and writer. At its world premiere in Cannes, Boy from Heaven won the prize for Best Screenplay.Trailer
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Walad Min Al Janna
Fiction Feature
Arabic
Kaleidoscope | FF2022
Sweden, France, Finland
2022
125 min
OV with German subtitles
Tarik Saleh
Tarik Saleh
Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Mohammad Bakri, Makram J. Khoury, Sherwan Haji, Mehdi Dehbi
Kristina Åberg, Fredrik Zander
Pierre Aïm
Pontus Borg
Theis Schmidt
Krister Linder
Roger Rosenberg
Denise Östhold
Ceren Sena Akgun
X Verleih AG
Memento International
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Coming of AgeSocietyViolenceFaithIslamic CulturePolitics and PowerDeath and LossFather