THE PAST WILL RETURN

GAYE EL ZAMAN

By Dina HAMZA

ZAWYA CINEMA AND DISTRIBUTION - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World

Biography - Completed 2015


Festivals
& Awards

Luxor African Film Festival 2015
Radwan ElKashef Award
Kazan Islamic Film Festival 2015
Special Jury Prize
Oslo Film Days 2015
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Biography, Documentary
    • Countries
    • EGYPT, NORWAY, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • ARABIC
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Dina HAMZA
    • Writer(s)
    • Dina HAMZA
    • Producer(s)
    • Marianne KHOURY (Misr International Films)
    • Synopsis
    • When my father passed away in 2010 I felt extreme loneliness, to the extent that suicidal thoughts prevailed. But I decided to live and and try to find an exit within my household from this loneliness. I stumbled upon the radio, the important object which my father had left me in the house. The radio became my only companion; the music stations play his songs. My father, Mohamed Hamza, is a poet, who composed lyrics for the biggest artists of the sixities such as Abdel Halim Hafez, Shadia, Warda, and others. I’ve decided to make a film in an attempt to find in it Mohamed Hamza the fa-ther, the poet and to find him within the different places, eras and people he lived through.