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