Friendship, ambition, and the war that shattered it all from across the border.
The story of a group of young intellectuals living in Egypt as friends, having a lot of ambition and joy, but with the beginning of the Iraq war , it casts a harsh shadow on the group, preventing one of them to travel abroad to continue studying.
Acting
Bassem Samra's simmering frustration as the blocked dreamer.
Direction
Rashwan captures pre-2011 Cairo's specific anxiety.
Writing
Conversations that feel eavesdropped, not scripted.
Director
Ahmed Rashwan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2010, the film captures Egyptian youth discontent just months before Tahrir Square would erupt.
Director Ahmed Rashwan struggled for years to get distribution; the film barely screened domestically before finding festival audiences abroad.
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