Yasser Shafiey

Magdy and Sama, a retired couple in their 60s, live quietly in their Cairo apartment. Their calm routine is disrupted when their fridge breaks down. What should be a simple repair spirals into a bizarre, months-long battle with a shady maintenance company. As the fridge remains unfixed, so does everything else, pushing them to confront not only the cracks in the system but also in their own sense of purpose.

A French cigarette, Gitane, narrates the story of Seif, a young man in his mid-twenties who suffers from the monotony of his solitary life. Through constant attempts to communicate with people he sees a girl in a neighboring window, and something happens.

Due to a medical error, an old radio falls into a man’s stomach. He will have to go into surgery to have the radio removed.

Opening Aswan Film Festival