A standing ovation for the film Yomeddine During his first screening on Monday evening at the Le Colisée cinema in the Cinema Days of Carthage (JCC) 2018 Monday evening, where he is in an official competition.
Yomeddine is an Egyptian film directed by the young Abu Bakr Shawky (of which it is the first feature film), and co -produced by his wife Dina Emam, Mohamed HefzyMohamed Sakr and Daniel Ziskind.
The film tells the journey through Egypt of Beshay (Rady Gamal), a leper (but who is no longer contagious) and Obama (Ahmed Abdelhafiz), a young orphan adolescent.
When he was a child, Beshay had been placed by his father in the Cairo leprosery where he grew up and lived. On the death of his wife, a leper like him, he decided to find his family. With the young Obama, he will go on the roads, where many adventures await them.
Abu Bakr Shawky had thought of making this fictional feature by turning a documentary on the Cairo leperch. He had felt that a film could be drawn from this experience on the tolerance and acceptance of the other. Yomeddine is also a great lesson in humanity, which perhaps explains his enormous success!
It should be noted that Rady Gamal was a real resident of the Cairo leprosery. He is not a professional actor. He said it himself during the debate which followed the screening of the film and when Abu Bakr had offered to shoot the film, he had accepted immediately. Then he had to repeat for months under the director’s direction to be able to play the role.
Young Ahmed Abdelhafiz is not a professional player either.
Yomeddine participated in several film festivals. He was notably in official competition at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in May 2018 where he won the François Chalais Prize and at El Gouna International Film Festival where he won the public prize.
Yomeddine was also chosen to represent Egypt at the preselection of theOscar for the best film in a foreign language.
The good news is that this film will be distributed in Tunisia by the company Hakka Distributionand therefore he will be in Tunisian cinemas in mid-December 2018. So go see him!
Neila Driss
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