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HAMLET FROM THE SLUMS

By Ahmed FAWZI-SALEH

A. A. FILMS - as PROD

Drama - Development 2022

After the ghost of his dead father appears to him demanding revenge from the conspiring uncle and mother, the Sufi Ahmed (Hamlet) has to face the rigid patriarchal world of his slum to seek justice and change the status quo which oppresses him and his generation.

Festivals
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Gouna 2020
CineGouna
Torino Film Lab 2021
Selected
Durban FilmMart 2021
Selected
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    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • EGYPT
    • Languages
    • ARABIC
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ahmed FAWZI-SALEH
    • Writer(s)
    • Ahmed AMER, Ahmed FAWZI-SALEH
    • Producer(s)
    • Ahmed AMER (A. A. Films)
    • Synopsis
    • Ahmed, an 18-year-old from an old slum in the heart of Cairo, buries his father, who was the king of horse-driven carriages collecting junk in the city. His uncle takes over and marries Ahmed’s mother ostensibly to keep the wealth within the family. The slum itself is long overdue for urban renewal, as part of a nationwide government plan to get rid of informal settlements.
       
      Ahmed continues to work for his uncle who is stuck in his old ways. His burden is made heavier by his fluid sexuality in a society that only values “manhood” in a patriarchal sense. He escapes his bleak existence by going to Sufi festivals (moulids) and loses himself in their transcendental rituals.
       
      The apparition of Ahmed’s father appears to him in a moulid demanding revenge from the uncle. Ahmed now  has to face a living patriarch to avenge a dead one. The tragic vicissitudes in Ahmed’s journey forces him to run away from the slum and join a traveling Sufi group. Ahmed’s path towards justice and change ends tragically when the slum is reduced to rubble, just like the dreams of the people who lived in it. The construction finally eats up the slum area and new high-rises take over.

      Our adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy is set in contemporary Egypt, and is steeped in the unique and rarely filmed universe of Sufi mysticism.
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