SAWAH

Credits

Name: SAWAH

Country: Ägypten/Belgien/Luxemburg

Year of publication: 2019

Format: DCP

Language : OF m. engl. UT

Duration: 86 min. Minuten

Series: 18. Afrikafilmfestival

Direction: Assal, Adolf El

Guest: Assal, Adolf El; Kabongo, Eric

Abstract

Skaarab, a DJ from Egypt, wins a contest that gives him the opportunity to travel to Brussels to take part in the international DJ festival ‘Drop Beats’. Because of an air traffic controller strike in Belgium, his plane is rerouted to Luxembourg. But his run of bad luck continues: His luggage, including his passport and music recordings, goes missing, and he is mistaken for a refugee. From then on, he is stuck in an unknown country and meets people who want to help him get to Belgium to make a name for himself as a DJ. At the same time, a revolution breaks out in his home country. Samir has a crazy 48 hours in store for him. (Press kit)

In SAWAH, Adolf El Assal fulfils a long-cherished desire to film a comedy with serious undertones about a protagonist who lands in Luxembourg quite by chance – just like what happened to the parents of the director, who still lives there now.

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