Made in Egypt · 45th Edition
BACK TO ALEXANDRIA
RETOUR EN ALEXANDRIE
Director
Tamer Ruggli
Country
Switzerland, France, Qatar, Egypt
Runtime
1 h 31 min
Language
Arabic, French
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
After twenty years of absence, Sue returns to her native Egypt to see her estranged mother, Fairouz, a splendid and eccentric aristocrat. Leading her on a surprising journey from Cairo back to Alexandria, Sue reconnects with her loved ones and faces startling and painful memories. She will reconcile with her past, and finally become the empowered woman she ought to be.
Cast
Nadine Labaki, Fanny Ardant,Laila Ezz El Arab, Hazem Ehab, MenhaEl Batraoui, Eva Monti, Enaam Salousa
Screenplay
Tamer Ruggli, Marianne Brun,Yousry Nasrallah
Producers
Francine Lusser, Gérard Monier, Laurine Pelassy
About the Director
Tamer Ruggli is a Swiss-Egyptian film director and screenwriter. He grew up in Kinshasa, Riyadh, Vienna and Zurich, before joining the Cinema Department at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL). After a screenwriting workshop at the New York Film Academy, he was awarded the SSA grant (Swiss Society of Authors) and the CÉCI Le Moulin d'Andé Prize for the writing of Back to Alexandria, his first fiction feature film. His short films have been selected and awarded in several international festivals.
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