Al-khoroug lel-nahar

Credits

Name: Al-khoroug lel-nahar

Country: Ägypten; Vereinigte Arabische Emirate

Year of publication: 2012

Format: Blu-ray

Color: color

Language : OF arabisch m. dt. UT

Duration: 96 Minuten

Direction: Lotfy, Hala

Camera: Lotfi, Mahmoud

Editing: Othman, Heba

Actor: Maher, Donia; Al-Najjar, Salma; Lutfi, Ahmad

Abstract

Any idiot can face a crisis - it is day to day living that wears you out. This is the every day story of two women taking care of their sick man. Those who have fully enjoyed their bodies cannot be submissive. And those who never have? Can they survive?
One day in the life of Soad, who lives with her mother and bed-ridden father on the outskirts of Cairo. While bright sunlight and the sounds of the city can be made out behind the half-closed shutters, everything in the flat exudes the smell of old age, sickness and stagnation. Her mother works nights in a hospital and has barely any energy to spare during the day. Soad too is no longer young, having resigned herself to caring for her incapacitated father and putting her own life on hold. The camera patiently follows her movements and daily activities that have become routine, capturing her frustration as well as moments of great tenderness. (Africultures)