Egyptian director Radhwan al Kashef is currently gearing up for shooting his forth narrative film entitled Okbal Endkom scripted by Sayyed Fuad, produced by Karim Gamal al Din and costarring Amr Waked and Fifi Abdo.
How come that a creative director like him with a long career full of art and politics offer only three narrative films?
“Initially I studied Philosophy and then involved myself long in politics. But my experience in direction came late as I was all the time keen on providing real films, which were difficult to find. Finding a producer was even more difficult,” Kashef explained.
“The new film belongs to a new genre which the Egyptian audience is not used to. So I consider it as an artistic special adventure close to theater in nature. It will be a show night in a random neighborhood and therefore 95 percent of the scenes will be shot in an indoor studio. The only outdoor scene will be the suicide scene,” Kashef told the UAE daily al Bayan.
He added, “the film tackles the poor class in a neighborhood through a young man and a girl who dream of a wedding night which never comes true. The simple dream cannot be achieved due to the present circumstances.”
Kashef is back again in the world of the marginalized people, which he highlighted, in his three previous films. Critics described this world as most appealing to Kashef who reiterates, “if I can do this in my coming films, I will do it although I do not consider my films about marginalized people but rather about the poor who constitute more than 95 percent of the Egyptian society. These people try to bypass the cruel poverty in order to continue life. These attempts for coexistence create wonderful paradoxes, which strongly attract me to the extent that I find myself making film about them
Except for the film Araq al Balah which tackled people of the south with its privacy and legendary charm, the films Laih Ya Banafsag (Why, Violet) and al Saher (Magician) tackled the world of the poor with all its hardships which simple people do not succumb to in a hope for salvation, said Kashef.
The director is also embarking on scripting a film entitled Nahnu (We) about the intellectual in the third world and his defeat and feeling of isolation -- Albawaba.com
