Boy from Heaven (2022)

Original title

La Conspiration du Caire

Directed by

Tarik Saleh

Genre

drama film, thriller film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

2h 05m

Rated

+13

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 289 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A poor fisherman named Adam wins a scholarship to study at Cairo's prestigious Al-Azhar University. He gets caught in a secret power struggle to choose the next Grand Imam.

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What happens

Boy from Heaven (Arabic: صبي من الجنة, romanized: ṣabiyy min al Janna, also known as Cairo Conspiracy), is a 2022 political thriller film written and directed by Tarik Saleh. It follows poor fisherman Adam (Tawfeek Barhom), who, while studying at the prestigious Al-Azhar University, witnesses the political struggle to elect a Grand Imam. The film is a co-production between Sweden, France and Finland. The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on 20 May, where it won the Best Screenplay award and the François Chalais Prize. It was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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