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OM AMIRA
OM AMIRA
Datos Técnicos / Technical Data
País de Producción / Country of Production: EGIPTO & ALEMANIA - EGYPT & GERMANY
Año Produccion / Year of Production: 2014
Duración / Running Time: 24′
Format / Format: HD
Pantalla / Screen Ratio: 16/9
Color / Color: COLOR
Gender / Gender: DOCUMENTAL - DOCUMENTARY
Lugar de Rodaje / Shooting Place: EL CAIRO - CAIRO
Versión Original / Original Version: ÁRABE - ARABIC
Subtítulos / Subtitles: INGLÉS - ENGLISH
Ficha Técnica / Specification Sheet
Productora / Production Company: RAHALA PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION
Producción / Production: NAJI ISMAIL
Director / Director: NAJI ISMAIL
Guión / Screenplay: NAJI ISMAIL
Fotografía / Cinematography: MOHAMED ABDEL RAOUF
Sonido / Sound: MOHAMED ABDEL AZEEM
Montaje / Editing: KAMAL EL-MALAKH
Ficheros / Files
Sinopsis / Synopsis
Una mujer, que vive en el centro de El Cairo, trata de sacar adelante a su familia vendiendo patatas fritas. Conocida como "Potatoes lady" empieza a cocinar de madrugada hasta la noche en la ciudad que nunca duerme.
Om Amira, a resident living on one of DownTown’s Roof tops, Having no other option but to toughen up to support her family, also known as the “Potatoes Lady” sells homemade fried potatoes sándwiches, starting at night until the sun lights in the streets of the city that never sleeps
Biofilmografia / Biofilmography
NAJI ISMAIL (El Cairo, Egipto 3\09\1983) Estudió en el Instituto de Cine de El Cairo de 2001 a 2006, graduándose Dirección. Después de su graduación ha participado en varios workshops dentro y fuera de El Cairo. En 2012 fundó “Rahala for Production and Distribution” una productora de películas de bajo presupuesto pero gran calidad.
NAJI ISMAIL (Cairo, EGYPT 9\3\1983) Studied at the Higher Cinema Institute of Cairo from 2001 to 2006, where he graduated from the Directing department. After his graduation he participated in several workshops in and outside of Cairo. In the second half of 2012 he founded “Rahala for Production and Distribution”, a production company aiming to work on the production of low budget films yet with good quality, through a different production system.
Premios / Awards
SIMA AWARDS (United States)
MEJOR FOTOGRAFÍA
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
AFRICA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Nigeria)
MENCIÓN ESPECIAL DEL JURADO
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
ISMAILIA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR DOCUMENTARY & SHORT FILMS (Egypt)
MEJOR PELÍCULA SOBRE MUJERES
ACT PRIZE FOR BEST FILM ABOUT WOMEN
 
Selecciones / Selections
PÄRNU INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY AND ANTHROPOLOGY FILM FESTIVAL (Estonia)
AL JAZEERA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL (Qatar)
ADDIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Ethiopia)
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL GOLDEN BEGGAR (Slovakia)
TWIN CITIES FILM FEST (United States)
BERLINALE - INTERNATIONALE FILMFESTSPIELE BERLIN (Germany)
RASSEGNA INTERNAZIONALE DI CORTOMETRAGGI PASSAGGI D'AUTORE: INTRECCI MEDITERRANEI (Italy)
NUREMBERG INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL (NIHRFF) (Germany)
ARAB FILM FESTIVAL TEXAS (United States)
ZINEBI - FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DOCUMENTAL Y CORTOMETRAJE DE BILBAO (Spain)
BBC ARABIC FESTIVAL: FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES FROM THE CHANGING ARAB WORLD (United Kingdom)
MEDITERRANEAN FILM FESTIVAL (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
FESCAAAL - FESTIVAL DEL CINEMA AFRICANO, ASIA E AMERICA LATINA DI MILANO (Italy)
IN THE PALACE - INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Bulgaria)