This month’s watch information includes a vary of North African tales that spotlight historic and current socio-political points by way of the intimacy of household dynamics. An Egyptian household traces the legacy of their well-known ancestor, who was a scholar on the College of Azhar in Cairo. A Western Saharan household will get separated and reconnects amidst the tip of Spanish colonial rule. After masking up the homicide of a South Sudanese lady’s husband, a Sudanese lady takes the widow and her baby into her house.
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‘The Memoirs of M. A. Draz’ (Egypt)
Trailer of “The Memoirs of M. A. Draz” “رسائل الشيخ دراز”
On this documentary, Egyptian actor Noha ElKholy uncovers letters, diaries and pictures left behind by her great-grandfather, the famend Azharite scholar Mohamed Abdallah Draz. Via this archive, she embarks on a journey many years after his loss of life, to light up M.A. Draz’s life story — from his humble beginnings within the village of Mahallat Diyay, to his adolescence in Alexandria and his scholarly pursuits in Paris.
The place to observe: Zawya Cinema, as a part of Cairo Cinema Days.
‘Goodbye Julia’ (Sudan)
Goodbye Julia (2023)| Official Trailer
This award-winning function movie follows the divide between Sudan’s north and south. Wracked by guilt after masking up a homicide, Mona, a Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage, tries to make amends by taking within the deceased’s South Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her house. Unable to admit her transgressions to Julia, Mona decides to depart the previous behind and modify to a brand new establishment, unaware that the nation’s turmoil might discover its approach into her house and put her nose to nose along with her sins. The movie by award-winning director Mohamed Kordofani stars Sudanese actress Eiman Yousif as Mona and South Sudanese supermodel Siran Riak as Julia.
The place to observe: Netflix.
‘4 Daughters’ (Tunisia)
4 Daughters – Official U.S. Trailer
Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated documentary “4 Daughters” makes use of a mix of documentary and fiction codecs to inform the compelling true story of a Tunisian household, consisting of matriarch Olfa Hamrouni and her 4 daughters. The household bond is shattered maybe irrevocably when the 2 elder daughters, Ghofrane and Rahma Chikhaoui, depart house to hitch the Islamic State in Libya. Two actors play the fugitive rebels in scenes recreating the previous, whereas the youthful women play themselves; Olfa generally speaks for herself and generally watches as star Hend Sabry stands in for her.
The place to observe: Zawya Cinema, as a part of Cairo Cinema Days.
‘Sahari Slem Wesaa’ (Morocco)
Screengrab from ‘Sahari Slem Wesaa,’ YouTube.
On this historic drama by Moulay Taieb Bouhanana, three brothers from Laayoune, capital of Western Sahara, make completely different political decisions amidst the withdrawal of Spanish colonial troops from the Sahara province in November 1975. Hammad will discover himself in Morocco, his sister Salka within the Polisario refugee camps in Algeria and Amar within the Mauritanian desert. Sixteen years later, following their mom’s severe sickness, Hammad will go after his brothers on the peril of his life.
The place to observe: Moroccan cinemas.
‘Again to Alexandria’ (Egypt)
BACK TO ALEXANDRIA a movie by Tamer Ruggli – trailer
On this comedy-drama by Swiss Egyptian filmmaker Tamer Ruggli, famend filmmaker and actor Nadine Labaki stars within the position of Sue who returns to her native Egypt after 20 years of absence. As her aristocratic, eccentric mom lies on her deathbed, Sue has to confront her painful previous throughout an interior journey whereas taking a shocking journey from Cairo again to Alexandria the place she reconnects with family members.
The place to observe: Zawya Cinema, as a part of Cairo Cinema Days.
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