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LIGHT UPON LIGHT

NOUR ALA NOUR

By Christian SUHR

MAD SOLUTIONS - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2022

Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) (Nordic Competition), Denmark 2023

Cairo International Film Festival (International Critics’ Week), Egypt 2023

Ethnofest - Athens Ethnographic Film Festival (opening film), Greece 2023

Etnokino Bern, Switzerland 2023

Amsterdam Ethnographic Film Day, Netherlands 2023

Practices, Aesthetics and Entanglements Conference, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, Sweden 2023

Arabian Nights Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark 2023

The Mariam Mosque, Denmark 2023

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- EGYPT, DENMARK
- Languages
- ARABIC, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 78 mn
- Director(s)
- Christian SUHR
- Writer(s)
- Muhammad MUSTAPHA, Christian SUHR
- Cast
- Aya EL-HOSSEINY, Sonia HASSAN, Maher AL-SHARNOUBY, Magda HABSHEY
- Producer(s)
- Hala LOTFY (Hassala Films)
- Synopsis
- One day, an Egyptian friend gave Danish anthropologist Christian Suhr a good piece of advice: “Stop focusing on all the darkness in the world and look at the light instead.” Suhr takes us on a journey to Cairo along the Nile and into the desert to understand what light means to the people he meets along the way.
  Through conversations and observations of breathtaking rituals, the light slowly breaks through and nuances the image of a religion often viewed with prejudice and reduced to simplistic clichés.