El Bostan El Saeed Street (Share' El Bostan El Saeed) - شارع البستان السعيد
Fiction - 15' - 2014




Cast
Nagui Chaker
Amgad Ryad
Noha El-Kholy
Moustafa Darwish
Director
Maysoon El Massry
Screenwriters
Maysoon El Massry
Ahmed El Emam
Assitant Director
Mohamed Zedan
DOP
Islam Kamal
Editor
Ahmed Magdy Morsy
Sound Designer & Mixing
Samir Nabil
Colorist
Tamer Nady
Producer
Mohamad El-Hadidi
Production Manager
Ahmed Zayan
Production
Rufy's Films
Fig Leaf Studios
With the support of
The National Centre of Cinema
LOG-LINE
I wonder why she never visited me in my dreams since she has gone, at least so that I would be sure that she was really here and not just an illusion of the adolescence period!
SYNOPSIS
Saied, a seventy-year-old man, goes back to the street, where he spent his childhood. He searches for everything that used to once exist there. He becomes a young manonce again. He rows a boat back home, his memories float everywhere around him till he arrives at his childhood street. He passes by the dilapidated houses searching for the house of his be loved Narges then he meets a postman who gets rid of the letters that he fails to deliver. They walk together to tell him his story.
FILM INFORMATION
Genre: Fiction
Format: HD 1920x1080
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Duration: 15 mins
Language: Arabic (Egyptian)
Subtitles: English
Country: Egypt
Year: 2014
PREVIOUS SCREENINGS
Nov. 2015 - Arab Camera Film Festival in Rotterdam, Netherland.
Oct. 2015 - National Cinema Festival, Egypt.
Oct. 2015 - Malmo Arab Film Festival, Sweden.
Sep. 2015 - In Shorts Festival, London.
Jun. 2015 - Damascus Festival, Syria.
Jun. 2015 - EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
May 2015 - 11th Rencontres de l'image film festival in Cairo, Egypt.
Dec. 2014 - Bahamas International Film Festival in Bahamas.
Nov. 2014 - The Royal African Society's Annual Film Festival in London, UK.
Sep. 2014 - Melbourne Underground Film Festival in Australia
Jun. 2014 - Shorts Revisited in Zawya movie theatre in Cairo, Egypt
Jun. 2014 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt.
Apr. 2014 - Tetouan Mediterranean Film Festival in Tetouan, Morocco.
Mar. 2014 - Luxor African Film Festival in Luxor, Egypt.
AWARDS
May 2017 - Best Short Film award in Masr Dot Bokra Film Festival, Egypt.
Oct. 2015 - Special Jury Prize in National Cinema Festival, Egypt.
Oct. 2015 - Best Short Film in Malmo Arab Film Festival, Sweden.
Mar. 2014 - Radwan El Kashef Award in Luxor African Film Festival in Luxor, Egypt.


