Overview

In the wake of the ouster of Islamist president Morsi, a truck-full of detained demonstrators roam through protests. Can the detainees overcome their differences to stand a chance of survival?

• Review

  Mohamed Diab known for Cairo, 678(2010) brings Clash a story based on the political situation in Egypt. After the Egypt revolution, military coup during the citizen resistance movement, the story starts in a prisoner convoy. The detainees are there for different political & social reasons. Muslim Brotherhood supporters, a journalist, a nurse & her husband, and etc.; they all represent the current Egyptian society. They observe the mayhem outside the car, and the aura of disaster rises. When their tension burst out, anger, confusion, and humanity reveals. Clash dramatizes the confusion after the People´s Revolution that resulted the fall of the Mubarak government. The collision unfolds a cosmic story inside the confined space. This is a metaphoric allegory that depicts anxiety of the world filmed with handheld cameras. [JANG Byungwon]

• Credit

  Director	Mohamed DIAB
  Screenplay	Khaled DIAB, Mohamed DIAB
  Producer	Mohamed HEFZY, Eric LAGESSE, M. W. ZACKIE
  Cinematography	Ahmed GABR
  Art Director	Hend HAIDAR
  Editor	Ahmed HAFEZ
  Music	Khaled DAGHER
  Sound	Ahmed ADNAN
  Cast	Nelly KARIM, Hany ADEL, Tarek ABDEL, Aziz Ahmed MALEK

Director

Mohamed DIAB

Born in 1978, Ismailia, Egypt. He is a writer and director whose work often centers on pressing issues concerning Egyptian society. He is known for his directorial debut film Cairo 678(2010), and wrote the blockbuster The Island nominated for Academy Awards in 2007. Clash is his second feature film and selected as the Opening Film of Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival 2016.