Eagles of the Republic
The most famous actor in Egypt, George Fahmy (Fares Fares), gets an offer he’d better not refuse: playing President al-Sisi in a hagiographic biopic. The final entry in the director’s…
Being Bo Widerberg
He was a filmmaker who thought Ingmar Bergman’s movies showed a false image of Sweden abroad; his view was defined by the working class. Ironically, Bo Widerberg came to resemble…
Boy from Heaven
Young Adam (Tawfeek Barhom), the son of a fisherman, goes to the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo to study, but is soon drawn into a murder investigation. The director’s best…
The Nile Hilton Incident
Cairo, 2011; a young singer is found murdered in a hotel room and a police officer, Major Noredin Mustafa (Fares Fares), looks into the case that turns out to have…
Gitmo
When Swedish citizen Mehdi Ghezali was released from Guantanamo Bay, Swedish media adopted a suspicious attitude toward him. This upset filmmakers Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh enough to go to…