Horizons of Arab Cinema · 46th Edition
Complaint No. 713317
Director
Yasser Shafiey
Country
Egypt
Runtime
1 h 16 min
Language
Arabic
Premiere
World Premiere
Synopsis
Magdy and Sama, a retired couple in their 60s, live quietly in their Cairo apartment. Their calm routine is disrupted when their fridge breaks down. What should be a simple repair spirals into a bizarre, months-long battle with a shady maintenance company. As the fridge remains unfixed, so does everything else, pushing them to confront not only the cracks in the system but also in their own sense of purpose.
Cast
Mahmoud Hemida, Shereen, Hana Shiha, Mohamed Radwan, Hanan Youssef, Enam Salousa, Mohamed Abdo, Tamer Nabil, Ahmed Abdel Hamid, Gehad Hossam El Din, Ali El Tayeb.
Screenplay
Yasser Shafiey
Producers
Nadine Khoury
About the Director
An Egyptian director, he graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in 2006 and began his career as a jewellery designer before shifting his focus to cinema. He studied at the Academy of Arts and the Jesuit Cinema School in Cairo, writing and directing several award-winning short films, including “The Dream of a Scene”, “Intense Practice to Improve Performance”, and “The Man Who Swallowed the Radio.” “Complaint no. 713317” marks his first feature-length film.
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