Rags And Tatters
Filmfest 2014
(FARSH WA GHATA)
Egypt 2013
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Arabic)
German Premiere
Director: Ahmad Abdalla
Section: CineMasters
Escaping after years of incarceration, a nameless man tries to find his way home amid the turbulence of the Tahrir
Square demonstrations in a Cairo turned upside down by the protests of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. As he rejoins the family and the country he has been separated from for so long, he finds that everything about life as he knew it has changed irrevocably.
Visit Films, Brooklyn, N.Y.
"During the sit-in in Tahrir Square, I personally volunteered at what was known as the Media Camp which is a tent built in the square to collect footage from mobile phones and cameras of the protestors and revolutionaries, while other volunteers archived and organized the footage before sending it to international stations... I found myself spontaneously drawn to the idea of using similar filming techniques... to create a new visual style of storytelling."
Ahmad Abdalla
Cast: Asser Yassin, Amr Abed, Mohamed Mamdouh, Yara Gubran, Atef Yousef
Credits
Screenplay: Ahmad Abdalla
Director of Photography: Tarek Hefny
Film Editor: Hisham Saqr
Composer: Mahmoud Hamdy
Production Designer: Nihal Farouk
Sound: Ahmed Moustafa Saleh
Producer: Mohamed Hefzy
Co-Producer: Omar Shama
Production Company: Film-Clinic
World Sales: Visit Films
Director: Ahmad Abdalla
