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‘Out on the Streets’ is a hybrid documentary and theatre film. Against the backdrop of revolutionary Egypt, unemployed workers of a shutdown factory stage a performance inspired by their struggles.
Nine men gather for a workshop on a rooftop. There they perform confrontations of everyday life, with the police and at the workplace.
In the process, the actors engage a space between the theatrical and the real.
This is not a film about workers.
The factory is a microcosm, مصر على صغير.

Credits

Director
Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk
Screenwriter
Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk
Producer
Mostafa Youssef
Cast
Please check treatment for workers who will be filmed and perform in this film.

About the Director

Jasmina Metwaly
Born to an Egyptian father and a Polish mother, Jasmina Metwaly is a Cairo-based artist and filmmaker, and member of the Mosireen collective. She works in video and film, and has recently started drawing again. She likes to work with people and their histories, texts, archives, images, scripts and drawings. She is interested in how stories create stories, and how they leave the space of one realit
Philip Rizk
Philip Rizk is a filmmaker and writer based in Cairo. Together with Jasmina Metwaly, he directed the feature film ‘Out on the Street’ (2015), which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and was part of the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Rizk is a member of the Mosireen video collective. His texts have appeared online, in journals and in collected volumes, including ‘Uncommon
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