SMILE THE PHOTO COMES OUT BETTER
Genre
Drama and Romance
Running time
120 minutes
Year
1998
Language
Arabic
Subtitle
English
Country
Egypt
Director
Sherif Arafa
Bio
Producer
Cast
Ahmed Zaki, Laila Eloui, Sanaa Jamil, Mona Zaki, Karim Abdel Aziz, Ezzat Abo Ouf
Scriptwriter
Wahid Hamed
SHOWTIME
Sun
08.
Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 5
9:45 PM - 11:55 PM
Price: 40 SAR
Photographer Sayed Gharib worries when his daughter Tahani moves to Cairo to study medicine, concerns that prove justified when she struggles to fit in with her privileged fellow students. His solution is to follow her to the city, moving close to the school where she studies. While she is falling in love with the son of a famous businessman, Sayed continues to take pictures. He has strong ideas about photographs of people, which reflect his own sense of dignity in poverty but is also his strongest professional principle. They must look happy; no matter how much sadness anyone carries with them, photographs must express joy. Mona Zaki plays in this film with other important Arab actors, including Ahmed Zaki and Leila Eloui.
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