Director of Photography
In this Andre Gide adaptation, an activist is released after many years in prison and returns home, shaking up established relationships among his family members at the farm governed by his strict father. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.
Director of Photography
La momia está basada en hechos reales. En 1881 aparecen en el mercado una serie de objetos procedentes de la dinastía Tanita. Se descubre que la tribu de los Horabat había saqueado en secreto las tumbas de los faraones de Tebas (hoy Luxor). La Escuela de Arqueología de El Cairo encontró las tumbas en un lugar recóndito del Valle de los Reyes. A través de esta película, el realizador Shadi Abd al-Salam plantea importantes cuestiones acerca de la relación entre pasado y presente, las creencias y la profanación, la muerte.
Cinematography
The story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to approach the revolutionary events in her country. She finds a new meaning in life when she falls in love with an aspiring young student. “I shot FAGR YOM GUEDID in 1964. I count it among my best films and still stand by it completely. It is about the class whose assets were nationalized after the 1952 revolution. I explored the question of whether this class still had a place in Egyptian society.”
Director of Photography
A group of unemployed girls who are searching for any chance of employment, apply to the public transportation organization to work as bus conductors. But they find that the job is monopolized and controlled by men, and they start a life-changing experience.
