Dry Hot Summers

Dry Hot Summers (Arabic: حار جاف صيفاً, transliterated: Har gaf sayfan) is a 2015 Egyptian short film directed by Sherif El Bendary. It was an official selection at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.[2]

Dry Hot Summers
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySherif El Bendary
Produced byClaudia Jubeh
Screenplay byNura El Sheikh
StarringMohamed Farid
Nahed El Sebai
CinematographyVictor Credi
Edited byEmad Maher
Production
companies
Release date
  • December 2015 (2015-12) (Dubai Film Festival)
Running time
30 minutes
CountryEgypt
LanguageArabic

Plot summary

One summer day in Cairo creates an unexpected encounter between two strangers on opposite chapters of their lives. Shawky is a silent old man struggling with cancer, who only has a few weeks left. Doaa is an energetic young woman who grabs her last chance to marry and start a new life in another city, building up a family, she herself so desperately misses. Both are isolated from society in different ways. Since his son is too busy to accompany him, Shawky is alone on his way to see a tumor specialist, a French physician, who is in Cairo for just a few days and means his last hope. Shawky's yellow plastic bag containing all his x-rays and medical tests are accidentally taken by the young woman (Doaa) he shares a taxi with. Doaa is getting ready for her wedding party later that night, but as she lives all alone in the city, only her motherly neighbor helps her with the busy preparations. As Doaa rushes through the city, the bridal bouquet gets lost and is picked up by Shawky, who is following her in search of his yellow plastic bag. The lost x-rays and the lost flowers oblige them to spend a fraught and exhausting day together, a journey through the city that plants the seed of hope where they never expected it. Before he catches his appointment with the doctor and she finally arrives at her wedding party, the two isolated people reconnect against all odds and form a human bond as they realize the preciousness of this very moment in their lives.

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Awards and nominations

References

http://mecfilm.com/index.php?id=3803

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