Your friend from the movies is back with the list of attractions this week. A horror, an animation, a classic and an action, the slate is full of choices but only from Hollywood. Yes, Its Hollywood calling this week as Bollywood decides to take a cool relaxing breath this week.
Crawl
A disaster horror directed by Alexandre Aja and written by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen. The movie stars Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper as a daughter and father, who along with their dog are hunted by alligators after becoming trapped in their home during a Category 5 hurricane.
Major Highlights :?A disaster horror from Alexandre Aja ? the man behind The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Mirrors (2008), Piranha 3D (2010), and Horns (2013).
Yomeddine
The 2018 Egyptian drama film directed by Abu Bakr Shawky based on friendship relations was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It won the Fran?ois Chalais Prize.
Crawl
A disaster horror directed by Alexandre Aja and written by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen. The movie stars Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper as a daughter and father, who along with their dog are hunted by alligators after becoming trapped in their home during a Category 5 hurricane.
Major Highlights :?A disaster horror from Alexandre Aja ? the man behind The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Mirrors (2008), Piranha 3D (2010), and Horns (2013).
Yomeddine
The 2018 Egyptian drama film directed by Abu Bakr Shawky based on friendship relations was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It won the Fran?ois Chalais Prize.
- 8/22/2019
- GlamSham
Yomeddine movie review is here. The 2018 Egyptian drama directed by Abu Bakr Shawky was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Featuring Rady Gamal and Ahmed Abdelhafiz, Yomeddine is releasing in India on August 23, 2019 through PVR cinemas in association with In2Infotainment, Kahwa films and Vkaao. Here is the review of Yomeddine ? nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
Immediate reaction when the end credits
Can a story featuring a real outcast ? a leper who still lives in a leper colony travels all roads and gain universal appeal?.Constantly hum a sweet violin on humanity and acceptance?. Gift us something that constantly reminds us on our sinful practices of discrimination amongst humans?. Abu Bakr Shawky?s Yomeddine does that and how!
The Story of Yomeddine
Beshay (Rady Gamal) a man cured of leprosy, has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian...
Immediate reaction when the end credits
Can a story featuring a real outcast ? a leper who still lives in a leper colony travels all roads and gain universal appeal?.Constantly hum a sweet violin on humanity and acceptance?. Gift us something that constantly reminds us on our sinful practices of discrimination amongst humans?. Abu Bakr Shawky?s Yomeddine does that and how!
The Story of Yomeddine
Beshay (Rady Gamal) a man cured of leprosy, has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian...
- 8/20/2019
- GlamSham
Egyptian-Austrian filmmaker A.B. Shawky makes his feature directorial debut with “Yomeddine,” an underdog story about an outsider who sets out to make sense of the world that refuses to accept him as he is. The film had its world premiere in competition at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and was the official Egyptian entry for foreign language film consideration at the 91st Academy Awards.
Acquired by Strand Releasing (all North American rights), “Yomeddine” is now set to open later this month in New York and Los Angeles.
The film’s plot follows Beshay — a man cured of leprosy — who has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. Following the death of his wife, he decides to go in search of his roots and confront the world, with his modest possessions strapped to a donkey cart and a traveling companion named Obama, an outcast...
Acquired by Strand Releasing (all North American rights), “Yomeddine” is now set to open later this month in New York and Los Angeles.
The film’s plot follows Beshay — a man cured of leprosy — who has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. Following the death of his wife, he decides to go in search of his roots and confront the world, with his modest possessions strapped to a donkey cart and a traveling companion named Obama, an outcast...
- 5/3/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
"Let's go find our family." Strand Releasing has debuted an official Us trailer for the Egyptian indie drama Yomeddine, from Egyptian-Austrian filmmaker A.B. Shawky making his feature directorial debut. This little film premiered in-competition at the Cannes Film Festival last year, and it's a buddy road trip comedy from Egypt about a couple of misfits who venture out into the world hoping to find a bit of hospitality and maybe a family. Rady Gamal stars as Beshay, a man cured of leprosy who has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. The small cast includes Ahmed Abdelhafiz, Osama Abdallah, Mohamed Abdel Azim, and Shahira Fahmy. This soulful story is full of heart and joy, despite their circumstances, and it is indeed a "life-affirming" and "cheerful" film worthy of discovering. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for A.B. Shawky's Yomeddine, direct from...
- 5/1/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The 17th Marrakech International Film Festival (Nov 30 – Dec 08) has set a jury comprising Suspiria star Dakota Johnson, Indian actress Ileana D’Cruz (Barfi!), Lebanese filmmaker and visual artist Joana Hadjithomas (I Want To See), Brit director Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Moroccan director Tala Hadid (House In The Fields), French director Laurent Cantet (The Class), German actor Daniel Brühl (Rush) and Mexican director Michel Franco (April’s Daughter). As previously revealed, director James Gray will serve as jury president.
A total of 80 films will unspool at the festival, with Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate among gala screenings and also the festival’s opener. Other galas include Roma, Green Book and Capernaum while special screenings include Wildlife, Her Smell and Birds Of Passage. The official competition, galas and special screenings are listed below.
The festival will also feature tributes to Robert DeNiro, Robin Wright,...
A total of 80 films will unspool at the festival, with Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate among gala screenings and also the festival’s opener. Other galas include Roma, Green Book and Capernaum while special screenings include Wildlife, Her Smell and Birds Of Passage. The official competition, galas and special screenings are listed below.
The festival will also feature tributes to Robert DeNiro, Robin Wright,...
- 11/19/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
All three of the Arabic films in this article concern fathers and sons. The bonds of respect and the seeds of future relationships which men make are found in this primary relationship.Yomeddine, sweet, naive and satisfying, was written and directed by A.B. Shawky. Egypt’s official submission for the 2019 Oscars in the Foreign Language category, this film played very well to a huge and enthusiastic audience both here in El Gouna and in Cannes where it premiered.Bashay Rady Gamal) leaving the leper colony with his beloved donkey is followed by his young orphaned friend, The Nubian, Obama,.
You can — and should — bring children to see this film. The best was watching this film with children here in El Gouna where it screened in a sold-out open-air theater of 1,200 seats with a desert breeze moving the scenes of huge landscapes in waves as if they were planned visual effects.
You can — and should — bring children to see this film. The best was watching this film with children here in El Gouna where it screened in a sold-out open-air theater of 1,200 seats with a desert breeze moving the scenes of huge landscapes in waves as if they were planned visual effects.
- 9/27/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Egyptian-Austrian director A.B. Shawky, whose unconventional road movie “Yomeddine” is Egypt’s candidate for the foreign-language Oscar, will be the recipient of Variety’s Mena Talent of the Year Award, to be bestowed during the upcoming El Gouna Film Festival.
“Yomeddine,” in which a middle-aged man raised in a leper colony embarks with a sidekick and a donkey on a journey across Egypt to try to reconnect with his family, world-premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, a rare case of a first feature making the official competition cut. The film won the non-official Francois Chalais Prize in Cannes, which is given to life-affirming works.
Shawky’s passion project, which stars non-professional actor Rady Gamal, who suffers from leprosy and is a resident of the leper colony, won the works-in-progress award last year at the El Gouna festival’s Cinegouna Platform. This year, the completed “Yomeddine” will have its...
“Yomeddine,” in which a middle-aged man raised in a leper colony embarks with a sidekick and a donkey on a journey across Egypt to try to reconnect with his family, world-premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, a rare case of a first feature making the official competition cut. The film won the non-official Francois Chalais Prize in Cannes, which is given to life-affirming works.
Shawky’s passion project, which stars non-professional actor Rady Gamal, who suffers from leprosy and is a resident of the leper colony, won the works-in-progress award last year at the El Gouna festival’s Cinegouna Platform. This year, the completed “Yomeddine” will have its...
- 9/19/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes selection won Francois Chalais Prize on the Croisette Cannes in recognition of life-affirming story.
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights from CAA and Wild Bunch to A.B. Shawky’s feature directorial debut Egyptian Oscar submission Yomeddine.
The film premiered in competition in Cannes and stars Rady Gamal as a man cured of leprosy who travels across Egypt to search for relatives, accompanied by an orphaned adolescent.
Ahmed Abdelhafiz also stars in Yomeddine, which won the Francois Chalais Prize on the Croisette Cannes in recognition of its life-affirming story. Desert Highway Pictures produced in collaboration with Film Clinic.
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights from CAA and Wild Bunch to A.B. Shawky’s feature directorial debut Egyptian Oscar submission Yomeddine.
The film premiered in competition in Cannes and stars Rady Gamal as a man cured of leprosy who travels across Egypt to search for relatives, accompanied by an orphaned adolescent.
Ahmed Abdelhafiz also stars in Yomeddine, which won the Francois Chalais Prize on the Croisette Cannes in recognition of its life-affirming story. Desert Highway Pictures produced in collaboration with Film Clinic.
- 9/18/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights for A.B. Shawky’s road comedy “Yomeddine” from CAA and Wild Bunch.
“Yomeddine” has been announced as the official Egyptian entry for foreign language film at the Academy Awards. The deal was done between Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing, Eva Diederix of Wild Bunch, and CAA Media Finance.
The film had its world premiere in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It centers on Rady Gamal, who portrays a man cured of leprosy who travels across Egypt to search for long lost relatives. Ahmed Abdelhafiz plays an orphaned adolescent who joins him. The film won the Francois Chalais Prize in Cannes, which is dedicated to life affirmation.
In his review for Variety, Jay Weissberg wrote: “Anchored by lead Rady Gamal’s warm-hearted charisma, the film is a sweet, solid first feature marbled with genuinely touching moments that make up for...
“Yomeddine” has been announced as the official Egyptian entry for foreign language film at the Academy Awards. The deal was done between Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing, Eva Diederix of Wild Bunch, and CAA Media Finance.
The film had its world premiere in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It centers on Rady Gamal, who portrays a man cured of leprosy who travels across Egypt to search for long lost relatives. Ahmed Abdelhafiz plays an orphaned adolescent who joins him. The film won the Francois Chalais Prize in Cannes, which is dedicated to life affirmation.
In his review for Variety, Jay Weissberg wrote: “Anchored by lead Rady Gamal’s warm-hearted charisma, the film is a sweet, solid first feature marbled with genuinely touching moments that make up for...
- 9/18/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Egyptian director A.B. Shawky’s feature debut, “Yomeddine,” didn’t win any prizes at Cannes last Saturday, but in its own profoundly empathetic way, the film might be considered the face of the festival’s 71st edition — one that looked thin on paper, got off to a clunky start but ultimately delivered strong, powerful stories of people living on the margins. For the lead role, Shawky cast Rady Gamal, a nonprofessional actor badly disfigured by a long-ago case of leprosy, who breaks audiences’ hearts at one point when his character, attacked by strangers who view him as some kind of contagious monster, cries out, “I am a human being!”
Those words, reminiscent of “The Elephant Man,” might just as well have been uttered by Marcello Fonte, who won the best actor prize from the Cate Blanchett-led jury for his role in Matteo Garrone’s “Dogman” — practically the definition of an underdog as a disrespected,...
Those words, reminiscent of “The Elephant Man,” might just as well have been uttered by Marcello Fonte, who won the best actor prize from the Cate Blanchett-led jury for his role in Matteo Garrone’s “Dogman” — practically the definition of an underdog as a disrespected,...
- 5/22/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Egyptian writer/director Abu Bakr (A.B.) Shawky and his filmmaking and real-life partner Egyptian producer Dina Emam made an impact weeks before their first feature, Yomeddine, even screened in Cannes. Theirs is the rare first-time feature to screen in what is most certainly the most prestigious launchpad for any movie: the festival’s Main Competition. Meaning “Day of Judgment” in Arabic, the film centers around a man with leprosy who goes in search of his family across Egypt with all of his possessions loaded on a donkey. Together with a young orphaned boy, the two fend […]...
- 5/12/2018
- by Tiffany Pritchard
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Egyptian writer/director Abu Bakr (A.B.) Shawky and his filmmaking and real-life partner Egyptian producer Dina Emam made an impact weeks before their first feature, Yomeddine, even screened in Cannes. Theirs is the rare first-time feature to screen in what is most certainly the most prestigious launchpad for any movie: the festival’s Main Competition. Meaning “Day of Judgment” in Arabic, the film centers around a man with leprosy who goes in search of his family across Egypt with all of his possessions loaded on a donkey. Together with a young orphaned boy, the two fend […]...
- 5/12/2018
- by Tiffany Pritchard
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Many of us likely consider ourselves outcasts in one way or another, that something about us has set us apart from common society, and we are bullied and dismissed for it. That might be true, but for some, it can be literally written on their body, and as such no avoiding their outcast state. So how does one build a life within that state? How does one find love, family, friends, community? Egyptian director and writer A.B. Shawky explores the plight of the outcast in his debut feature film, Yommedine. A beautiful, heartbreaking, and heart-soaring story, Shawky treads the familiar ground of the movie within a specific cultural and personal context. Beshay (Rady Gamal) has leprosy. As a child, his father left him at a...
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- 5/11/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Beshay (Rady Gamal) is one of the most distinctive characters in recent cinema: a man afflicted by leprosy, traveling across Egypt after his wife’s death to find his long-lost relatives. The best thing about writer-director A.B. Shawky’s feature-length debut — the only debut in competition at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival — is the way it burrows inside Beshay’s life without devolving into a pity party.
Gamal, a genuine discovery who serves as the key to the movie’s emotional core, delivers a tender, heartwarming performance that sits well with Shawky’s naturalistic style. He’s complimented by another newcomer, Ahmed Abedelhafiz, playing orphaned adolescent Obama, who accompanies Beshay on his journey. Together, the pair transform the gimmicky connotations of a buddy movie about being ostracized into, well, a decent buddy movie.
Shawky’s breezy plot plays like a Middle Eastern answer to Italian neorealism, peering beyond the most obvious...
Gamal, a genuine discovery who serves as the key to the movie’s emotional core, delivers a tender, heartwarming performance that sits well with Shawky’s naturalistic style. He’s complimented by another newcomer, Ahmed Abedelhafiz, playing orphaned adolescent Obama, who accompanies Beshay on his journey. Together, the pair transform the gimmicky connotations of a buddy movie about being ostracized into, well, a decent buddy movie.
Shawky’s breezy plot plays like a Middle Eastern answer to Italian neorealism, peering beyond the most obvious...
- 5/10/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
A man who has recovered from leprosy goes in search of the father who abandoned him in a sentimental drama that infantilises its lead character
Yomeddine (the title means “day of judgement” in Arabic) is a gentle, but persistently sugary road movie, set in Egypt. There is a streak of sentimentality – with which I have no real problem – but also a kind of infantilisation.
Beshay is a man who has recovered from leprosy, but left with extensive scarring: he makes cash by scavenging for sellable items from the local garbage dump. Bashay is played with relaxed candour and without prosthetics by non-professional Rady Gamal. The feature was in fact developed by the director Ab Shawky from his earlier documentary short entitled The Colony, about the Abu Zaabal leper colony, just outside Cairo. Bashay has been raised in the colony as a Christian, and evidently married to a woman who has...
Yomeddine (the title means “day of judgement” in Arabic) is a gentle, but persistently sugary road movie, set in Egypt. There is a streak of sentimentality – with which I have no real problem – but also a kind of infantilisation.
Beshay is a man who has recovered from leprosy, but left with extensive scarring: he makes cash by scavenging for sellable items from the local garbage dump. Bashay is played with relaxed candour and without prosthetics by non-professional Rady Gamal. The feature was in fact developed by the director Ab Shawky from his earlier documentary short entitled The Colony, about the Abu Zaabal leper colony, just outside Cairo. Bashay has been raised in the colony as a Christian, and evidently married to a woman who has...
- 5/10/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
An Egyptian leper and his young orphan friend journey south in search of family in debuting director A.B. Shawky’s lovingly made road trip movie, “Yomeddine.” Anchored by lead Rady Gamal’s warm-hearted charisma, the film is a sweet, solid first feature marbled with genuinely touching moments that make up for times when the siren call of sentimentality becomes a little too loud. Shawky, a relative unknown within the Egyptian filmmaking community and an NYU graduate, shows a sure hand with his non-professional actors and, together with Argentinian cinematographer Federico Cesca, demonstrates a fine compositional eye. However, Cannes’ decision to put it in competition puts a tremendous amount of pressure on “Yomeddine” that it might not be able to bear, which is a shame as it’s an enjoyable character-driven drama that could please international audiences.
The first glimpse we get of Beshay (Gamal) is of his gnarled hands and...
The first glimpse we get of Beshay (Gamal) is of his gnarled hands and...
- 5/9/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
With “Yomeddine,” Egyptian-American director A.B. Shawky achieved something he most likely didn’t dare dream of: He landed a spot in the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious main competition with his first film, a feel-good drama that began life as an NYU student film.
But be careful what you don’t dare wish for, because that acceptance put Shawky in some formidable and intimidating company. Cannes usually gives a couple of first-time filmmakers spots in the Un Certain Regard section, where reports say that “Yomeddine” was originally slated, but it’s extremely rare for a rookie director to make the main competition.
The last first-timer to achieve that feat was Laszlo Nemes three years ago for “Son of Saul” — and that harrowing Holocaust drama not only won Cannes’ grand prize (essentially, second place to the Palme d’Or) but it went on to win the foreign-language Oscar.
That’s heady territory for a film that is lighter than typical Cannes fare, and it’s a lot to ask of a 32-year-old director making his initial foray into this world. “Yomeddine” is certainly a crowd-pleaser — it received a lengthy standing ovation at the end of its premiere in the Grand Theatre Lumiere on Wednesday night, and respectful applause at its concurrent press screening in Salle Debussy — but it’s also on the slight side for a Cannes berth.
Also Read: Cannes Report, Day 1: 'Everybody Knows' Premieres, Cate Blanchett Shines on the Croisette
It’s one of the very few Cannes films to deserve the term sweet, and it’s no fault of Shawky’s if the festival usually avoids sweetness in its quest for more adventurous fare.
The story centers on Beshay, who has lived in a leper colony in Egypt since he was dropped off there as a child by his father. His dad promised to come back for Beshay after he was cured, but that never happened — and now Beshay, a cantankerous man of about 40 (he’s not sure, exactly) who makes his living scrounging through a giant trash dump, decides that he wants to go to his dimly remembered hometown to find his family.
Joining him on the trip is a young boy who lives in a nearby orphanage; “Obama,” as Beshay calls the boy because he’s Nubian, is the classic unwanted stowaway who ends up being an invaluable companion.
Also Read: 'Rafiki' Film Review: African Gay Romance Is a First for Cannes
Although Beshay’s leprosy hasn’t been contagious for decades, he bears its scars on his face and hands, and thus isn’t welcome on public transportation even if he could afford it. With a rickety cart and an implacable donkey, the two set off on a lengthy journey along the Nile, where they have what can perhaps best be described as escapades.
If these mean more than the usual buddy-comedy tropes, it’s because Shawky has a knack for straightforward storytelling and because Rady Gamal, who plays Beshay, gives an affecting performance of playful charm with an undercurrent of deep sadness. He and Ahmed Abdelhafiz as Obama are a pair to root for, and Shawky gives them plenty of perils but also abundant moments of grace.
Beshay gets an “Elephant Man” moment when he’s besieged in a train car at one point, but the film is really about acceptance — and about finding community and even family in a way that Dorothy Gale from Kansas might recognize.
“Yomeddine” isn’t going to take Cannes by storm the way “Son of Saul” did in 2015, but it was never meant to be that kind of movie. Instead, it’s a charming, pleasing debut for Shawky, and a kind-hearted film in a festival that is often lacking in that particular quality.
Read original story ‘Yomeddine’ Film Review: First Time’s a Charmer for Egyptian Drama At TheWrap...
But be careful what you don’t dare wish for, because that acceptance put Shawky in some formidable and intimidating company. Cannes usually gives a couple of first-time filmmakers spots in the Un Certain Regard section, where reports say that “Yomeddine” was originally slated, but it’s extremely rare for a rookie director to make the main competition.
The last first-timer to achieve that feat was Laszlo Nemes three years ago for “Son of Saul” — and that harrowing Holocaust drama not only won Cannes’ grand prize (essentially, second place to the Palme d’Or) but it went on to win the foreign-language Oscar.
That’s heady territory for a film that is lighter than typical Cannes fare, and it’s a lot to ask of a 32-year-old director making his initial foray into this world. “Yomeddine” is certainly a crowd-pleaser — it received a lengthy standing ovation at the end of its premiere in the Grand Theatre Lumiere on Wednesday night, and respectful applause at its concurrent press screening in Salle Debussy — but it’s also on the slight side for a Cannes berth.
Also Read: Cannes Report, Day 1: 'Everybody Knows' Premieres, Cate Blanchett Shines on the Croisette
It’s one of the very few Cannes films to deserve the term sweet, and it’s no fault of Shawky’s if the festival usually avoids sweetness in its quest for more adventurous fare.
The story centers on Beshay, who has lived in a leper colony in Egypt since he was dropped off there as a child by his father. His dad promised to come back for Beshay after he was cured, but that never happened — and now Beshay, a cantankerous man of about 40 (he’s not sure, exactly) who makes his living scrounging through a giant trash dump, decides that he wants to go to his dimly remembered hometown to find his family.
Joining him on the trip is a young boy who lives in a nearby orphanage; “Obama,” as Beshay calls the boy because he’s Nubian, is the classic unwanted stowaway who ends up being an invaluable companion.
Also Read: 'Rafiki' Film Review: African Gay Romance Is a First for Cannes
Although Beshay’s leprosy hasn’t been contagious for decades, he bears its scars on his face and hands, and thus isn’t welcome on public transportation even if he could afford it. With a rickety cart and an implacable donkey, the two set off on a lengthy journey along the Nile, where they have what can perhaps best be described as escapades.
If these mean more than the usual buddy-comedy tropes, it’s because Shawky has a knack for straightforward storytelling and because Rady Gamal, who plays Beshay, gives an affecting performance of playful charm with an undercurrent of deep sadness. He and Ahmed Abdelhafiz as Obama are a pair to root for, and Shawky gives them plenty of perils but also abundant moments of grace.
Beshay gets an “Elephant Man” moment when he’s besieged in a train car at one point, but the film is really about acceptance — and about finding community and even family in a way that Dorothy Gale from Kansas might recognize.
“Yomeddine” isn’t going to take Cannes by storm the way “Son of Saul” did in 2015, but it was never meant to be that kind of movie. Instead, it’s a charming, pleasing debut for Shawky, and a kind-hearted film in a festival that is often lacking in that particular quality.
Read original story ‘Yomeddine’ Film Review: First Time’s a Charmer for Egyptian Drama At TheWrap...
- 5/9/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
It’s been a long road to the Cannes Film Festival for Egyptian-Austrian filmmaker A.B. Shawky and his feature debut Yomeddine. The feel-good road movie was a passion project that he developed as his thesis out of NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts, shot in Egypt with his wife, first-time producer Dina Emam, and stars non-actors with no reading or memorizing skills. The challenge landed him rejections from some festivals before Cannes offered an Un Certain Regard slot—and then bumped him up to competition, a rare berth for a neophyte.
Shawky, who moved to Cairo at 25, set up indie production company Desert Highway Pictures with Emam to make Yomeddine, but “didn’t know anybody in the industry. It was a huge endeavor and a risky project for a first-time filmmaker,” he says. He returned to New York for post and stopped when he ran out of money, taking...
Shawky, who moved to Cairo at 25, set up indie production company Desert Highway Pictures with Emam to make Yomeddine, but “didn’t know anybody in the industry. It was a huge endeavor and a risky project for a first-time filmmaker,” he says. He returned to New York for post and stopped when he ran out of money, taking...
- 5/9/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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