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Thu / Sept 29 / 19:00 

Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?

━━━ 2022

DIRECTOR
Mohammad Shawky Hassan

GENRE
Fictional Essay

RUNTIME
66 Minutes

COUNTRY
Egypt, Lebanon, Germany

LANGUAGES
Arabic & English

SUBTITLES
English

SYNOPSIS

In the presence of the director and crew

“Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?” takes contemporary queer musical Arab folktales as its formal reference, and Egyptian pop music as its primary sonic material. It is based on the filmmaker’s personal love diary and told in the form of a “One Thousand and One Nights” tale, where stories playfully unfold through conversations between Scheherazade, a narrator who never comes into view and the ghosts of former lovers.

SCREENPLAY
Mohammad Shawky Hassan

EDITOR
Carine Doumit

MUSIC
Amen Feizabadi

WITH

Donia Massoud

Ahmed El Gendy

Salim Mrad

Nadim Bahsoun

Hassan Dib

Ahmed Awadalla

Richard Gabriel Gersch