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Bader Short Film Programme II
Young adults have completed the circle of youth and are now taking their own steps on the path of life. Their opinions resonate more strongly and this appealing programme exposes them to cinema as a contemporary art form.
A straightforward errand turns into a wild goose chase for an elderly man when he crosses paths with a bride-to-be in a taxi cab.
A straightforward errand turns into a wild goose chase for a kind-hearted elderly man when he crosses paths with a nervous bride-to-be in a taxi cab. Though their routines are taking them down different paths, it seems destiny has brought them together to reconnect them to the joys of life. Director Sherif Elbendary captures the ambience of Cairo’s congested streets and charming hidden corners in a lovely tale of chance encounters and unexpected friendship in the sweltering heat of the city.

Credits

Director
Sherif Elbendary
Screenwriter
Nura El-Sheikh
Producer
Claudia Jubeh
Executive Producer
Safei El Din Mahmoud, Red Star Films
Co-Producer
Hossam Elouan
Cinematographer
Victor Credi
Editor
Emad Maher
Production Company
Subtype Productions
Sales Company
Mec Film
Cast
Mohamed Farid, Nahed Elsebai, Donia Maher, Mohamed Abd el Azim

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