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.
Directed by : Tarik Saleh
Screenplay by : Tarik Saleh
Cinematography : Pierre Aïm
Editing : Theis Schmidt
Sound : Pontus Borg
Production Designer : Roger Rosenberg
Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Mohammad Bakri, Makram J. Khoury, Mehdi Dehbi