Short Film Competition · 46th Edition
The Last Miracle
Akher Almo'gezat
Director
Abdelwahab Shawky
Country
Egypt, Sudan, Germany
Runtime
19 min
Language
Arabic
Synopsis
Yahya, a forty-year-old editor, is reprimanded by his boss after misspelling the name of a revered Sufi sheikh. he receives an unexpected phone call from the deceased sheikh himself, asking to meet him.Yahya is drawn into a spiritual journey that culminates in an unexpected ending.
Cast
Khaled Kamal, Ahmed Siam, Abed Anani
Screenplay
Mark Lotfy, Abdelwahab Shawky
Producers
Amjad Abu Alala, Mark Lotfy, Baho Bakhsh, Adel Abdullah, Sherif Fathy, Safei Eldin Mahmoud, Abdelwahab Shawky, Boris Despodov
About the Director
An Egyptian filmmaker who worked for over a decade as an assistant director with prominent names. He served as first assistant director to Amjad Abu Alala on You Will Die at Twenty, winner of the Lion of the Future award at the Venice Film Festival.