International Magazine: Film "Happy birthday day" He has a strong chance at the Oscars
IndieWire magazine published International The official trailer for the movie “Happy Birthday” Directed by Sarah Gohar, explaining that it has a real chance to be shortlisted at the Oscars.
The magazine indicated that the film “Happy Birthday Day” It has a real chance to become the first film chosen by Egypt to reach the Oscar shortlist in the Best International Film category.
The magazine’s report stated that the film “Happy Birthday” He won two awards at two international festivals, where he won the Audience Award from the Mill Valley Film Festival. In San Francisco, USA, he also managed to win the grand prize from the “Heartland Film” Festival. One of the most prominent American film festivals, which is held in the city of Indianapolis, and is considered one of the festivals that qualifies for the Oscars.
In addition to winning the awards for Best International Feature Film, Best Screenplay for an International Feature Film, and the Nora Avron Award, the film was produced by Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx.
Fox and his production partner, Datari Turner, president of the production company, told IndieWire magazine: “Our hope is that more and more people will be able to watch this.” The powerful film, It is a wonderful storytelling with a new voice in cinema.
Sarah Johar collaborated with her husband, director Mohamed Diab, in writing the film, whose film “Clash” presented On behalf of Egypt for the Oscars in 2016, the film is based on the experience of “Gohar” While visiting her grandmother in Egypt, it deals with the themes of social classes, empathy, and the fragile bonds that unite people, through the eyes of a young domestic worker in Cairo.
Notably, the Heartland Film Festival Prize is An exceptional milestone for director Sarah Gohar, after she joined her husband, director Mohamed Diab, who won the same award from the festival in 2012 for the film “678”, becoming the first couple in the festival’s history to win the same award with different films.
The El Gouna Film Festival, in its eighth session, also selected director Sarah Gohar within the “Rising Stars” program. affiliated with the “CineGouna Emerge” platform, celebrating a new generation of Arab and North African creators, giving them the opportunity to communicate with leaders of the film industry.
The film “Happy Birthday” had won With 3 awards at the Tribeca Film Festival, which began its activities last June 4 in the United States of America, after participating in the official competition for international feature films, the film won the award for Best International Film, Best International Screenplay, and Best Director, thus becoming the first Egyptian film to win three awards from the Tribeca Festival.
The film was written by Sarah Gohar and Mohamed Diab, produced by Ahmed El-Desouki, “Sky Limit,” starring stars Nelly Karim. And Hanan Mutawa, with the participation of Hanan Youssef and children Doha Ramadan, Joumana, Kady Muhammad, Fares Omar, and many guests of honor, including Sherif Salama, Ali Sobhi, directed by Sarah Gohar, and Film Square, Immersive Studios, is participating in the production, in addition to the famous American star Jamie Foxx.
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