Samah Anwar

Three Egyptian shorts, juror participating in Clermont-Ferrand Int'l Short Film Festival

The Egyptian short films include My Brother (2024), I Told You So (2023), and Dry Hot Summer (2015). My Brother, a 15-minute animated auto-fiction, was written and directed by brothers Abdelrahman and Saad Dnewar. It ​explores the past complexities shared by two identical twins, with a split narrative retelling the two sides of their memories. This narrative blurs the lines between their identities, reality and fiction, and present and past. The film is the only Egyptian entry in the International Competition. It will be screened alongside 64 other films "that expose, question, and invite us to look with a fresh pair of eyes at a reality where everyday life rubs stands alongside the extraordinary," the festival's catalogue reads. I Told You So, a 26-minute-long documentary, was directed by Malak Al-Sayyad and Amaan Stewart.