2 Rooms and a Parlor
Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage
Sherif El Bendary / Feature Narrative / Egypt, Qatar / 2015 / 105 min / Colour / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: Drama, Dark Comedy, Family
Synopsis
Khalil Suleiman has always preferred to stay away from other people, but after his wife’s death, he finds he is lonely. Realising his routine life is coming to its end before he has explored it fully, he decides to take a trip to Panama. His plans come up against many obstacles. He has no passport and only speaks Arabic – and his son disapproves of his plans. Solving these problems and making travel arrangements forces Khalil to revisit his complicated relationship with his son and to become involved in the lives of his neighbours – all of whom are people he has avoided in the past. As Khalil gets closer to each of his neighbours and his son, and his travel date looms on the horizon, he finds his old ways of thinking
are changing.
Credits
- Director
- Sherif Elbendary
- Screenwriter
- Mohamad Elazab
- Producer
- Mohamed Hefzy, Racha Najdi
About the Director
Egyptian filmmaker Sherif Elbendary lives and works in Cairo. He graduated from the High Institute of Cinema in Cairo in 2007. His short films, ‘Rise & Shine, (2006) and ‘At Day’s End’ (2008), appeared in numerous film festivals and won many awards. Sherif’s ‘Curfew’ was part of the omnibus film ‘18 Days’, which screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2011, and his ‘Dry Hot Summers’ won the Robert Bosch Film Prize in 2014, and was in competition at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2016. ‘Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim’ is Elbendary’s feature-length debut. He is currently preparing his second feature, ‘2 Rooms and a Parlor’.
Contacts
-
Main Contact
Sherif El Bendary
- Company:
- Film Clinic
- Phone:
- +20 237 346 918
- Email:
- shbncin@yahoo.com
-
Main Contact
Sherif Elbendary
- Company:
- Film Clinic
- Phone:
- +20 237 346 918
- Email:
- shbncin@yahoo.com