Egyptian participation in the 53rd Karlovy Vary Festival

The name of Egypt is located at the 53rd session of the Karlovy Vary Festival – the most important festival in Central Europe from June 29 to July 7 – The first contest of the documentary competition and the competition for its prizes were produced by joint German-Egyptian production and staging, as well as by the financing of Marwan Amara and Johanna Domik as part of the "Another Look" project. Siam, a film that was shown at the festival "Edva" The third contest is that of Mohammed Siam himself, member of the jury of the documentary contest, who participated two years ago in the screening of his first film at the same festival. Carlsbad.

Dream Away

Watching the movie "Dream Away" was frustrating for me, because of its intellectual and artistic weakness, despite the production and co-production. The film mixes the novelist and the documentary, although most of them are a novelist, but it is based on stories of real characters. Some critics accuse the festival's management or the programming section of having placed it among the documentaries.

In my opinion, the problem is not in its clbadification of documentary or novelist, because there are many Arab and international films that have combined the two – the novelist and the documentary – on a visual level, amazing audio, intellectual and artistic. We did not stop long before the clbadification, because even purely documentary films are not real documentaries, because there are prejudices of direction in the choice of the treatment angle, the guests, the position of the camera, the selection of information. Excluding Other Information All of the above takes the documentary description and makes it closer to the novelist, or at least far from the documentary, albeit to varying degrees.

The heroes of the movie "Dream Away" – or "Dream Away", which the industry refused to give him an Arab title – three young women and four young people, as well as another person who claims to be a monkey aboard a four-wheeled car
My bias against the film is not the condemnation of those young people who hurt them when he did not talk about the fundamental reason that led them to this contradiction, and not just because they are liars. His unpleasant look is a view of condemnation. But mostly because of his poor artistic and intellectual level, and the tawdry mutation of the movie "Elton" in which he sings his words or his call "I am the monkey …" as a parody of the song "I am the Egyptian cream of the two elements His texts were written by Tunis Birm, composed and sung by Sayed Darwish, and considered one of the most important songs of the twentieth century.

Throughout the 86-minute film – the world premiere of Karlovy Vary – which was shot in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh – we see only one of seven guests, workers and workers, talk about their lives and dreams, and why they have come to Sharm, and the fact of their work, and why they are hiding from their families, and their wages have been affected by the conditions experienced by Egypt as a result of the revolution and the absence of and their surrender to low wages.

Filmmakers' preoccupation with the idea of ​​contradiction in the heroes has made them lose the most important point that could have been attractive and influential: ignoring or ignoring not only the circumstances that led these young people and the practice of lying and deception. But also – and most importantly – neglected the real difficulties faced by these young people and hundreds of other workers where they closed their livelihoods and how much they have suffered, and their attempts to keep their workplaces , for example, of reality. There are tales about the bazaars (Mahalla), which have been closed, and how hotels have insisted that their tenants pay certain amounts – even if they are already closed – if tourism comes back and was kissed of life, there are stories of merchandise in the bazaars. The young people lost their skin and fell as the Egyptian proverb says, and there are others who have left the country.

The film tries to pbad from the scenes of recognition to the narrative scenes of the daily life of these young people and concludes that these young people are not only liars, but also mirages and indulge in a monkey who leads them as s & # They believed to be the Savior.

I was stuck in the show

after my frustration with the movie "Dream Away" and although I was watching a number of other films of different nationalities, the festival has about 200 films in its different sections, but I expected the day The documentary "Amal" is banned from the show in Egypt – which represents the second Egyptian participation, but in the "Another Look" section at the Karlovy Vary Festival in its 53rd edition, which was presented by its director, Mohammed Siam, And his use of songs is very sensitive, he is influential and expressive about the character of Amal heroine of the film Mohammed Siam will follow six years since the beginning of the Egyptian revolution until 39, in 2017 to follow his life, his behavior and his expression of the Egyptian revolution and the other with his mother in political ideas and with documentary scenes at different stages of his life. Documented several of the most important events of the revolution over the years and successive developments, which was closely related to the character of Amal, who lost his father before the revolution three years, and then lost his first lover in the events from Port Said Stadium, What is the importance of the film is that the character of the heroine is a model that represents the developments and changes that have happened to many Egyptians and Egyptians during these few years, and how they put an end to the situation. She added, "I hope you are going to be the subject of a new movie for me, I will follow the developments of his life for six or seven years to see how things are going to be."

Despite some scenes that may seem long To some extent, but in my opinion one of the two most important documentary films produced by Theo It is sad that both films, which were celebrated by important festivals In the world, were blocked by the Egyptian censorship of the show in the two countries from which they came, Surprisingly, we have not heard that the Cinema Committee announces his resignation because of the prohibition of their offer, as was the case with the film "Karma" by Khaled Youssef