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An Egyptian woman is trying to look after her four children, before and after her divorce from their father. However, over time circumstances around her gradually change on all levels.
Since 2003, Mahmood Soliman has tracked the subjects of his​ ​2003 documentary ‘Living Among Us’. The intervening 10 years have been the most inflamed decade in Egypt’s modern history. This film reveals how, over the last decade, Nadia’s eldest, once the best student at school, has become a 21-year-old drug dealer; how 11-year-old Omnia, her only daughter, came to life; and how Nadia herself, from being a strong woman struggling for her kids and trying to escape from a cruel husband, became a mother in her fifties striding through the streets of Cairo in search of her sons. The collapse of this reflects Egypt’s deterioration, especially in the last 10 years of Mubarak era, and the attempts of his regime’s remains to thwart the January Revolution.

Credits

Director
Mahmood Soliman
Screenwriter
Mahmood Soliman
Producer
Nivine Afify
Production Company
January For Arts and Culture Productions
Cast
Real Characters

About the Director

Mahmood Soliman
Mahmood Soliman graduated from the Higher Cinema Institute of Cairo in 1997. He has published several social and political essays in Egyptian and Arab newspapers, and three short-story collections. Soliman has been awarded several prizes in the Arab world for his literary work, and has written, produced and directed three fiction and one documentary short films, which have been selected for more t
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