Abu Bakr Shawky is an Egyptian-Austrian writer and director who studied film at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Egypt’s High Institute of Cinema. His works include the short films El Mosta'mara (09), The Road to Atalia (10), Martyr Friday (11), and Things I Heard on Wednesdays (12), and the features 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing (10) and Yomeddine (18). Hajjan (23) his latest film will be premiered at TIFF.Read More

Synopsis

Two outcasts, a Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice, leave their leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what remains of their families.

Highlights

Cannes Film Festival, France

Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, United States of America (USA)