Yomeddine (2018)
- Original title
- يوم الدين
- Directed by
- Abu Bakr Shawky
- Genre
- comedy drama
- Country
- Egypt
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Rated
- AL
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 36 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man with leprosy leaves the colony where he lives to search for his father. He teams up with a homeless boy, and they travel across Egypt together.
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What happens
Yomeddine (Arabic: يوم الدين) (English: Judgement Day) is a 2018 Egyptian drama film written and directed by Abu Bakr Shawky, in his directorial debut. Starring non-professional actors, it follows Beshay (Rady Gamal), an outcast shunned and condemned by the outside world due his leprosy. While searching for his father he meets the Nubian homeless boy Obama (Ahmed Abdelhafiz), together they travel through Egypt. Yomeddine means "Day of Judgement" in Arabic. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival on 9 May 2018, where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the François Chalais Prize. It was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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