Film Programme
Om Amira
documentary,
Mon, 15:00
Egypt , 2013, 25'
Director: Naji Ismail
Producer: Shady Ishak
Cinematographer: Mohamed Abd El-Raouf
Writer: Naji Ismail
Editor: Kamal El-Mallakh
Synopsis: Om Amira, also known as the “Potatoes Lady” sells homemade fried potatoes sandwiches in a side street, meters away from Tahrir Square where the spark of the Egyptian Revolution started. Her daily struggle starts at night preparing her potatoes to be fried in the early morning.
Director: Naji Ismail
Naji Ismail is a young filmmaker from Upper Egypt, graduated from the High Cinema Institute in 2005 in Film Directing, joined many workshops in writing, producing and documentaries, worked on many short films and wrote two feature films, awarded many prizes on his last work "Hekayet el Thawra" or "The Story of the Revolution".
