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Ali and Ibrahim are two lonely and weird characters who are rejected by their society. Ali loves a goat called Nada, and Ibrahim is a sound engineer who is disturbed by strange voices that he alone can hear. When their paths cross, this odd pair embarks on a journey that will change their lives.
Ali loves a goat called Nada. Ibrahim, a depressed sound engineer who hears voices he cannot decipher. Ali’s mother drags him to a healer, who gives Ali stones to throw into the water so that he will be healed. At the healer’s place, Ali meets Ibrahim, who has been given similar stones. In order to throw the stones into the sea, Ali, his beloved goat and Ibrahim embark on a journey along the shores of Egypt, and it turns into a voyage of friendship and self-discovery.

Credits

Director
Sherif Elbendary
Screenwriter
Ibrahim El Batout, Ahmed Amer
Producer
Hossam Elouan, Titus Kreyenberg, Guillaume De Seille
Co-Producer
Mohamed Hefzy
Editor
Emad Maher
Production Company
Film Clinic, Transit Films
Music
Ahmed El Sawy
Cast
Ahmed Magdy, Ali Sobhi, Salwa Mohamed Ali, Nahed El Sebai

About the Director

Sherif El Bendary
Egyptian filmmaker Sherif Elbendary lives and works in Cairo. He graduated from the High Institute of Cinema in Cairo in 2007. His short films, ‘Rise & Shine, (2006) and ‘At Day’s End’ (2008), appeared in numerous film festivals and won many awards. Sherif’s ‘Curfew’ was part of the omnibus film ‘18 Days’, which screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2011, and his ‘Dry Hot Summers’ won the Robert B
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