Summaries

Suez city is the birthplace of the 2011 January revolution. The director looks back to the history of this port city since the 80's.

In the extra ordinary Egyptian city of "Suez ", the Egyptian revolution was born and the film features its entire special divided story. The Suez born 30 years old filmmaker invites the audience to share his internal meditative look at the very special 5 periods of time in his life. Each period is described in a wave and each wave has a special visual & auditory theme inspired from the sea's various actions. Using the director's voice over, animation scenes, and a poetic style of sound design & cinematography, the film describes the mental & psychic structure of the currently so called as 'the Egyptian revolution's generation". And tries to decode many special facts in both the far and near history of Egypt that directly helps in reading the present and the future of Egypt! of crows and waves.—Ahmed Nour

Details

Keywords
  • 2d animation
  • art house
  • surrealist
  • current affairs
Genres
  • Drama
  • Animation
  • Family
  • Romance
  • History
  • War
  • Biography
  • Documentary
Release date Jan 3, 2025
Countries of origin Egypt
Language Arabic
Filming locations Suez, Egypt
Production companies Hecat Studio Moug Films Thelsem Films

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 11m
Color Color
Sound mix Stereo
Aspect ratio

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