At the El Gouna Film Festival, Ahmed Fahmy’s iProductions has announced that three new feature films – “Abu Saddam,” “Have You Drunk From The Nile” and “Troubled Omar” – are to go into production from November and run to the end of next year.
Additionally, iProductions has announced that shooting has recommenced on their new fantasy drama television series “Wadi Al Jinn,” in collaboration with Viu platform, scheduled to premiere on Viu next year, and the building of new cinemas in Egypt.
“Have You Drunk From The Nile,” to be directed by Khaled Diab, heads the slate. The movie reunites the team behind Cannes entry “Clash,” with that film’s helmer Mohamed Diab as well as Sherine Diab co-scripting alongside the director. The crime caper stars Mostafa Khater and Hamdi El-Mirghani as two drug dealers who run off with a large shipment of heroin belonging to a crime kingpin.
Egyptian writer and director Nadine Khan,...
Additionally, iProductions has announced that shooting has recommenced on their new fantasy drama television series “Wadi Al Jinn,” in collaboration with Viu platform, scheduled to premiere on Viu next year, and the building of new cinemas in Egypt.
“Have You Drunk From The Nile,” to be directed by Khaled Diab, heads the slate. The movie reunites the team behind Cannes entry “Clash,” with that film’s helmer Mohamed Diab as well as Sherine Diab co-scripting alongside the director. The crime caper stars Mostafa Khater and Hamdi El-Mirghani as two drug dealers who run off with a large shipment of heroin belonging to a crime kingpin.
Egyptian writer and director Nadine Khan,...
- 10/24/2020
- by Kaleem Aftab
- Variety Film + TV
It is the third feature by Egyptian director Mohamed Diab after ’678’ and ’Clash’.
Paris-based Pyramide International has acquired international rights to Mohamed Diab’s coming of age drama Amira, excluding Arab-language territories and Israel. CAA Media Finance is handling Us rights.
The film wrapped shooting in Jordan this week.
Sister company Pyramide Films will handle the French release, having previously handled Diab’s Clash and 678.
The Palestine-set drama marks the feature debut of actress Tara Abboud who stars as a bubbly 17-year-old who has grown-up believing she was conceived with the smuggled sperm of her imprisoned father.
Her sense of...
Paris-based Pyramide International has acquired international rights to Mohamed Diab’s coming of age drama Amira, excluding Arab-language territories and Israel. CAA Media Finance is handling Us rights.
The film wrapped shooting in Jordan this week.
Sister company Pyramide Films will handle the French release, having previously handled Diab’s Clash and 678.
The Palestine-set drama marks the feature debut of actress Tara Abboud who stars as a bubbly 17-year-old who has grown-up believing she was conceived with the smuggled sperm of her imprisoned father.
Her sense of...
- 12/19/2019
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
MaryAnn’s quick take… Challenging and provocative, but the limitations it places on itself restrict the appreciation for anyone not already steeped in its culture and politics. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
This is the movie that is set entirely in the back of a police van. If you hadn’t already heard about Clash, which premiered at Cannes last year and has had an impressive festival run, I promise that you will be hearing more. This second feature from Egyptian writer (with Khaled Diab) and director Mohamed Diab limits itself in daring way, attacks its intriguing concept unflinchingly, sets a high bar for itself, and ends up as a challenging and provocative bit of cinema. I’m just not sure that it’s entirely successful for those of us who don’t live...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
This is the movie that is set entirely in the back of a police van. If you hadn’t already heard about Clash, which premiered at Cannes last year and has had an impressive festival run, I promise that you will be hearing more. This second feature from Egyptian writer (with Khaled Diab) and director Mohamed Diab limits itself in daring way, attacks its intriguing concept unflinchingly, sets a high bar for itself, and ends up as a challenging and provocative bit of cinema. I’m just not sure that it’s entirely successful for those of us who don’t live...
- 4/21/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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