YAFMA EGYPTE

Yafma's from Egypt. Saturday 22nd of April, from 14:00 to 15:30 in M Leuven. Buy your ticket(s) here. 

HE’S DEAD NOW
2022, Tarek El Sherbeny, Egypte, 12 min.
Cast: Mohamed El Geddawy, Hanan Henawy, Nabil Nour El Din,Ahmed Hosny;  Radwa Hegazy, Kholoud Elssa, Sofia Gebril 
Spoken: Arabic. Subtitles: English
At his father's funeral, Hazem welcomes his father's male friends and relatives. As he listens to the Quran, his mother appears and reveals her husband's extramarital affairs. Hazem is stunned.

I, YOU AND SHE
2022, Gina Sawat Ibrahim, Egypte, 20 min.
Cast: Malak Ahmed Mohy, Nabil Nor-Eldin, Amina Ahmed Mohy, Nadeen Kamel 
Spoken: Arabic. Subtitles: English
Malak, after a year studying abroad, returns home. She would like to make a film about her and her father. Then she discovers old videos of herself and her young deceased twin sister. It is difficult to talk about it with her father and family.

With filmmaker Gina Sawat Ibrahim

YESOD
2022, Nizar Nassar, Egypte, 27 min.
Cast: Tarek Bob, Nermin Habib
No dialogue
A dystopian tale hundreds of years in the future. Climate change has turned the earth into a practically barren desert. Everyone turns out to be an enemy of everyone and both survival and identity are being fought for...

LITER OF GAS
2022, Ramy Ibrahim, Egypte, 17 min.
Cast: Ahmed Taha, Mohamed El Azzab, Haitham Darweesh, Abdelrahmam Magdy
Spoken: Arabic. Subtitles: English and Spanish
Sudden price hikes in summer 2017 are dramatic for an unemployed man in Egypt. As he starts the difficult search for petrol, he discovers the socio-economic injustices that led to his situation. Then he makes an irreversible decision - one that even sparked a revolution elsewhere.

PHOTOGRAPH
2022, Amr M Selim, Egypte, 11 min.
Cast: Muhammad Raafat, Rina Maher, Nada Mahmoud, Khaled Sherif, Nancy Hamed.
Spoken: Arabic. Subtitles: English
When his mother dies, the somewhat shy Raafat does not have it easy. He now has to celebrate his birthdays without her. Yet now he wants to go all out to have a birthday photo that doesn't show him alone.