BOY FROM HEAVEN

Best Screenplay Cannes 2022


Directed by: Tarik Saleh

Year: 2022

Country: Suedia, Franţa, Finlanda

Genre: drame

Length: 125 min.

Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival in Cairo the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, suddenly dies and Adam soon becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Eqypt’s religious and political elite.