Date Wine

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.

Director: Radwan El Kashef

Cast: Sherihan, Abla Kamel, Mohamed Nagaty, Manal Afifi, Hamdy Ahmed, Fayza Amasaib, Gamal Ismail, Seif Abdelrahman

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.