Commissioned as part of a collective of personal responses (Gaza’s Winter) to the 08/09 assault on Gaza – the film uses the poetry of Suheir Hammad and a mixture of personal recordings, news material and found footage to explore the personal and political tensions born of Egypt’s role in the assault…
When he hears his cousin is to sell their grandmother’s land, Sharif gets on the first plane to Cairo. On arrival, he finds himself faced with old arguments and new decisions in a changing country.
Shot over 2009 in Cairo and London, Maydoum stars Khalid Abdalla (the Kite Runner, Green Zone) in an…