In early 2011, the filmmaker set out together with a friend to undertake a commissioned project to follow in the footsteps of James Bruce and document the Nile river from Alexandria to Aswan, but he got caught up in the events of the Egyptian revolution.
Also in this combined programme
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The Story of Milk and Honey
An unknown author fails to write a love story as images and sounds develop into a search for human perception of history and truth. -
Of Heroes, Football and All That Remains of My Childhood
Questioning what it means to be a ‘revolutionary’ today, the artist explores hopes and disillusions in the context of recent Arab history in this live -
The Sun’s Incubator
Life of a young family as they witness revolutions and birth, misery and hope, interlinked by the will to achieve change.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, Lebanon
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 27'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
