"Wave track" It wins the award at the International Film and Sea Festival in Morocco
The Egyptian documentary film “Skit Al-Mouj” won Directed by Omnia Fouad, the Jury Prize at the International Film and Sea Festival in Morocco.
The film follows the story of the fisherman and boatman Ashraf Ahmed, who is over fifty-five years old, and began his journey with the sea since he was a child of seven years old, when he inherited the profession from his father and grandfather.
Navigation The director has the camera in his tired hands and his facial features that reflect contentment, to highlight the spiritual human relationship between him and the sea that gave him the meaning of life. Ashraf moves between the Nile Sea in Kafr El-Zayat and Lake Burullus, but the sea remains his constant companion and the source of his livelihood and love, as if its waves were telling the story of a lifetime of toil, patience, and dream.
The film was distinguished by a graceful visual photography style by the director of photography, Ahmed Yahya, who focused on the sensory details of the fisherman’s relationship with his boat, his net, and the sea. surrounding him. Close-up shots of Ashraf’s features and hands while sewing the nets were mixed with wide shots of the horizon and water, to create a symbolic feeling of union between man and nature, as if the sea was the mirror of the soul.
Monitor Diaa Muhammad also played a prominent role in achieving a warm visual and rhythmic balance, as he moved smoothly between scenes, giving… The film has a flow that resembles the movement of waves, while the music and sound effects by Mustafa Muhammad contributed to creating an auditory atmosphere that deepens the sense of place. The sound of the sea was present as a hidden character that was not absent from the film, as if it was whispering the story of the fishermen who live on its edge.
Through this short work, Omnia Fouad presented a greeting. Honest to the fishing profession and to those who dedicated their lives to the water and the waves, stressing that the documentary can be a visual poetry about the simple human being who carries in his silence the wisdom and depth of the sea.
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