2020 | Egypt | Documentary

Saba' sanawat hawl delta al-neel (Seven Years Around the Nile Delta)

  • Arabic 331 mins
  • Director | Sharief Zohairy
  • Writer | Sharief Zohairy
  • Producer | Sharief Zohairy, Abdullah Dawestashy

STATUS: Released

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During his childhood and adolescence Sharief Zhairy used to travel four times each year, with his father in his car, between Alexandria, where he was studying, and Al-Zarqa, his birthplace. It was a three-hour trip along the agricultural road system that links distant parts of lower Egypt. After a year of the political instability that happened in Egypt, Zohairy got encouraged in 2012 to rediscover the old journey using a Handycam to document the emotional experience of a traveler inside the Nile Delta. The result of his eight-year-long cinematic journey is a mix of road movie and travelogue, contemplating the diversity of thirty-two cities and villages of the Nile Delta and documenting the contemporary daily activities in this ecologically endangered area.

Journey Contemplative Documentary Ecology Archive
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