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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.