Films by Viola Shafik

Germany 2014, 98 min
by Viola Shafik

A Coptic political activist and an Upper Egyptian collector reconstruct the story of their hometown Luxor that was destroyed during the rule of Mubarak due to state corruption and neo-liberal economy; in Cairo a socialist writer compares the 1952 and the January 2011 revolution, reflects on his own political disillusionment by telling about one of his most beautiful novellas written in the beginning of the Mubarak era. His depression is juxtaposed to the enthusiasm of a young female Islamist cy