#Egypt independent scene
The director of the Egyptian independent film 'Yomeddine' - or Judgement Day - becomes first Egyptian to be invited to the main competition of Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Abu Bakr Shawky and his wife Dina Emam, the film is "a road trip where two outcasts, Beshay and Shika, discover the harshness of the world outside the leper colony where they have spent all their lives," according to the synopsis of Yomeddine on Kickstarter. "After the death of his wife, Beshay and his apprentice,…
