Ce drame suit le parcours d’un prisonnier libéré lors de l’ouverture des prisons après la révolution égyptienne. L’homme se retrouve à errer dans un pays en plein bouleversement…

Après s’être échappé d’une prison, un homme essaie de rentrer chez lui au Caire, une ville sens dessus-dessous depuis les manifestations de la Révolution égyptienne du 25 janvier. En retrouvant sa famille et le pays dont il a été séparé pendant si longtemps, il réalise que toute la vie qu’il a connue auparavant a irrévocablement changé.

Un film de Ahmad Abdalla

Egypte – 2013 – Fiction – 1h27′

avec Asser Yassin, Atef Yousef, Amr Abed, Yara Goubran, Mohamed Mamdouh

LA NOTE DU PROGRAMMATEUR (Festival d’Apt)
Un homme, solitaire, s’enfuit d’une prison ouverte pendant les manifestations de Tahrir. A travers le désordre et la violence, il recherche un abri dans les quartiers les plus misérables et marginaux du Caire. A la croisée de la fiction et du documentaire, conjuguant néo-réalisme et poésie, réduisant le dialogue au minimum, passant de scènes violentes ou sordides aux élans de beauté et d’espoir, entremêlant des chants soufis joyeux, Abdalla signe un film prodigieux qui va au plus profond des contradictions de la révolution et de la société égyptienne. Rags and tatters fera date dans l’histoire du cinéma et a déjà été un des évènements du Festival de Toronto.


Égypte – 2013 – 1 h 27 mn – Réalisation : Ahmad Abdalla – Scénario : Ahmad Abdalla – Image : Tarek Hefny – Décor : Nihal Fawzy – Montage : Hisham Sakr – Musique : Mahmoud Hamdy – Son : Kostas Varibopiotis – Interprétation : Asser Yassin, Atef Yousef, Amr Abed, Yara Goubran, Mohamed Mamdouh –

Contact :
Film Clinic – 141 (A) Cornishe El Nile, 9th floor, Maadi – Le Caire – Égypte – Tél : 202 252 680 50 – Fax : 202 252 680 14 – e-mail : [email protected] – web : www.film-clinic.com


2013 | 11e Festival des cinémas d’Afrique du pays d’Apt | APT, France | du 08 au 14 novembre 2013
* Sélection
www.africapt-festival.fr/pages2013/f13_ragsandtatters.htm

2013 | 35ème Cinémed 2013 – Festival international du Cinéma Méditérranéen de Montpellier 2013 | MONTPELLIER, France | du 25 Octobre au 02 novembre 2013
* Sélection – Compétition Longs métrages
* Antigone d’or 2013 de l’agglomération de Montpellier
* Projection : Corum – Salle Pasteur Dimanche 27 octobre 2013, 14 h 00
* Projection : Corum – Salle Pasteur Jeudi 31 octobre 2013, 16 h 00
www.cinemed.tm.fr/cgi-bin/film/film.cgi?lemenu=2&id=15672&festi=69&uk=&mod=prog

2013 | Festival de Toronto
* Sélection – Contemporary World Cinema
* Première Mondiale / World Premiere
* Projection/Screening: Monday September 9 – Jackman Hall – 10:00 PM
* Projection/Screening: Tuesday September 10 – TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 – 2:30 PM
* Projection/Screening: Friday September 13 – Scotiabank 11 – 4:00 PM
http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/ragsandtatters

Set in Cairo’s poor neighbourhoods, the plot of Rags and Tatters follows an unnamed fugitive (Asser Yasin) from the notorious jailbreak that took place in the early days of the revolution, and his anguished search for a warm and safe shelter.

After escaping years of incarceration, a nameless man tries to find his way home in a Cairo turned upside down by the protests of the Jan25 Egyptian Revolution. As he revisits the family and country he has been separated from for so long, he finds that everything about life as he knew it has irrevocably changed.

A film by Ahmad ABDALLA

Egypt, 2013, Drama, 87 mins



PROGRAMMER’S NOTE
Escaping from prison amid the turbulence of the 2011 Tahrir Square demonstrations, a nameless fugitive desperately seeks warmth and shelter in the outer regions of Cairo, in director Ahmad Abdalla’s vivid and captivating portrait of the fallout from the Arab Spring.

Ahmad Abdalla’s eerily prescient Microphone, which premiered at the Festival in 2010, captured in pseudo-documentary style the despair, rage, and creative energy of the youth who would eventually become the vanguard – and cannon fodder – in Egypt’s revolution. (Ironically, it was released in theatres in Egypt on January 25, 2011, the initial Day of Revolt that gave the uprising its name.) His latest, Rags and Tatters, picks up where Microphone ended, narrating the stories of those who were cast aside from the revolution’s sweep.

Set in Cairo’s poor neighbourhoods, the plot follows an unnamed fugitive (Asser Yasin) from the notorious jailbreak that took place in the early days of the revolution, and his anguished search for a warm and safe shelter.

With sparse dialogue, contemplative long takes, and nameless characters, Abdalla weaves documentary vignettes with Sufi chants and poetry in a hand-held style inspired by the amateur footage that flooded the media tent in Tahrir Square where the filmmaker volunteered during the eighteen days of the insurgency in 2011.

Rags and Tatters reflects on how film can translate the intensity of what Egyptians experienced – the contrasting moments of blind violence, salutary compassion, and unimagined joy – beyond sophistry and testimonies.

Borrowing its title from a line from an improvised poetry-chanting competition (a Sufi tradition), the film unfolds like an ode to the deeper significance of the revolution, beyond the political, ending with a call for all Egyptians, privileged and castaways, to remake their own destiny.
RASHA SALTI (Toronto FilmFest 2013)
http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/ragsandtatters

Director: Ahmad Abdalla

Country: Egypt
Year: 2013
Language: Arabic
Runtime: 87 minutes
Rating: 14A

Exec. Producer: Hany Saqr
Producer: Mohamed Hefzy, Omar Shama
Production Co.: Film Clinic, Mashroua

Principal Cast: Asser Yassin, Atef Yousef, Amr Abed, Yara Goubran, Mohamed Mamdouh

Screenplay: Ahmad Abdalla
Cinematographer: Tarek Hefny
Editor: Hisham Saqr
Sound: Kostas Varibopiotis
Music: Mahmoud Hamdy
Prod. Designer: Nihal Farouk

Int. Sales Agent: Film Clinic
U.S. Sales Agent: Film Clinic

Tags: Human Rights | Drama | Politics | Urban Life | Arabic

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بطولة

آسر ياسين
عمرو عابد
يارا جبران
محمد ممدوح
عاطف يوسف
محمد فاروق
سندس شبايك
حمدي التونسي
مني الشيمي
سيف الاسواني
مريم القويسني
مايكل ممدوح
مع
لطيفه فهمي



مساعد المخرج الأول
عمر الزهيري

مدير الانتاج
وائل السلاموني

مدير موقع التصوير
محمد درديري

تسجل ومونتاج صوت
أحمد مصطفى صالح

مكساج
KOSTAS VARIBOPIOTIS

Art Director
نهال فاروق

موسيقى
محمود حمدي

مونتاج
هشام صقر

منتج فني
هاني صقر

مدير التصوير
طارق حفني

منتج مشارك
عمر شامه

انتاج
محمد حفظي

كتابة وإخراج
أحمد عبدالله السيد


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