Komedies uit Egypte en Iran
Overview of films
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Apartment No.13
Yadollah Samadi | 97' | Iran | International premiere
Masha’allah Iranmanesh, who lives in Kerman, inherits an apartment in Tehran. He decides to sell it to buy a shop in Kerman and get married.… -
Hotch Potch
Sherif Arafa | 108' | Egypt | International premiere
Ya mahalabia ya is a complex satirical comedy, with political undertones, about film-making at the time of British domination under their puppet King Farouk. A… -
Love in the Fridgidaire
Said Hamed | 107' | Egypt | International premiere
Love in the Fridge, shot in Egypt, is debut film by the Sudanese director Said Hamed. A black comedy about a man without a wife,… -
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 98' | Iran | -
A film in which all the wonders, dreams and insanity of the whole history of film, and Iranian film in particular, seem to be united.… -
Pickpockets Don’t Go to Heaven
Abolhassen Davudi | 90' | Iran | International premiere
The hawker Delshad is forced to seek a new way of earning his living. All the legal channels are closed to him, so he has… -
Terrorism and Kebab
Sherif Arafa | 110' | Egypt | International premiere
Terrorism and Kebab is a farce denouncing the absurdity of bureaucracy. It is also a dramatic parable about impotence. The story is set in the… -
Violets Are Blue
Radwan El Kashef | 122' | Egypt | International premiere
A tragi-comedy filled with colourful scenes which show the dreams and also the realistic limits for the people living a marginal existence in Cairo. Violets…