Date Wine (1999)
Overview
Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.
Cast
Sherihan
Salma
Abla Kamel
Salima
Mohamed Nagaty
Ahmed Mustafa Ismail
Manal Afifi
Shifa
Hamdy Ahmed
Mute Grandpa
Fayza Amasaib
Grandma Zen
Gamal Ismail
Mohammed Ismail
Seif Abdelrahman
Salem
Lobna Mahmoud
Umm Salma
Kamal Soliman
Syed
