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CAIRO EXIT
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October 27-2730, 30, 20112011 OCTOBER
November 11 - 20, 2011
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January 19 - 22, 2012
November, 11 - 13, 2011 Hesham Issawi, Egypt / 2010 / 96 min / Arabic w/English subtitles Yearning to be as free as she feels when motorbiking the dusty back streets of Cairo with her Muslim boyfriend Tarek, 18yearold Amal is torn between absconding to Italy illegally by boat with her beloved, or staying in Egypt with her Coptic Orthodox Christian family. Amal cannot bear to consider the future she faces as a poor woman in Egypt, reflected in the lives of her sister and best friend: one makes grave sacrifices so her son can have a better life, while the other prepares for a surgery to feign her virginity so she can enter into a loveless marriage to an older, wealthy foreigner. But even as Amal actively seeks out opportunities for selfsufficiency, it is ultimately fate that will determine her path. Screenwriters: Hesham Issawi, Amal Afify / Producer: Sherif Mandour / Cinematography: Patrik Thelander / Composer: Tamar Karwan / Prin cipal Cast: Mohamed Ramadan, Maryhan, Sana Mouziane, Saffa Galal, Ahmed Bidder / Contact: heshamissawi@yahoo.com SPeCiAl GueSt: heShAM iSSAWi
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THE DIRECTOR: HESHAM ISSAWI was born in Egypt and raised in a devoutly intellectual Egyptian family. He moved to America in 1990 to study anthropology but changed his major from anthropology to art and photography. He graduated from Columbia College Chicago and directed the awardwinning short films The Interrogation and T For Terrorist and the feature AmericanEast. CAIRO ExIT comes from feelings of strong anger about the way things were in Egypt post the revolution of Jan 25th. I have tried to bring into focus the struggle of the common Egyptian. I wanted to paint a picture of what's happening, show the truth, and be committed to the truth rather than understanding it. Hesham Issawi
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