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75East Signs Egyptian ‘Voy! Voy! Voy!’ Director Omar Hilal – Red Sea Film Festival
75East Signs Voy! Voy! Voy! Director Omar Hilal
The picture, which is Hilal’s first feature, is inspired by the true story of a man who fakes blindness to join a team of visually impaired footballers bound for Poland to fulfil his dream of escaping Egypt to live in Europe. After topping the Egyptian box office for two months and gaining critical and box-office success in its Gulf and wider MENA release,the feature made its international premiere in Rotterdam’s Limelight Section in 2023. Its growing roster of filmmakers include BAFTA-winner and Oscar-nominee Bassel Ghandour ( Theeb, The Alleys), Palme d’Or-nominee Abu Bakr Shawky ( Yomeddine, Hajjan), Gotham Best Breakthrough Director nominee Mahdi Fleifel ( To A Land Unknown); Amjad Al Rasheed (I nshallah A Boy); Firas Khoury ( Alam, Maradona’s Legs); Faris Alrjoob ( The Red Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry); Nay Tabbara ( Ebb & Flow); Karim Shaaban ( 6 Days); Yassmina Karajah ( Rupture), and Mayar Al Nouri, creator and director of Amazon Prime Original series Self Modulation( Tarteeb Khass).
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