Art Direction
A contract killer and a poor family are squatting in the same residence in Baghdad courtesy of their boss, who is one of the political overlords in Iraq. The killer is caught in a moral downhill spiral with his ruthlessness increasing with every crime he commits. Meanwhile, the mother and children of the family he is living with are trapped by their conditions but refuse to give in to them. The characters seem like fragmented reflections of Iraq as it negotiates its traumas of wars and corruption, and a very uncertain future.
Compositor
Amal, a tour guide in Cairo, doesn’t want to get married after witnessing her mother’s divorce, and has decided that all men are no good. With high hopes, she goes to visit the Aswan High Dam where a tourism delegation is. In a chance encounter, she meets civil engineer Ahmed, who intervenes in time to save her life after a near freak accident. After this, Amal must decide what she will do with her life: whether she will return to Cairo and whether to continue graduate studies in America.
Music
An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest son, Ahmed (Shukry Sarhan), takes the role of the man in the house and helps his mother take care of his brother and sisters. Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy), his brother, is a self-centered man who refuses to follow his brother’s step and decides to make his own decisions in his life.
