DIFF - Boy From Heaven at The Darwin International Film Festival
DIFF - Boy From Heaven
THU 22 SEP
Coming Soon to
The Darwin International Film Festival
NT PREMIERE
Adam is the son of a fisherman in the northern town of Manzala in Egypt. When he is offered to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicentre of Sunni Islam, it is the ultimate privilege. Shortly after Adam arrives the Grand Imam mysteriously dies. Adam finds himself a pawn in a power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite.
The winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes this year, Swedish- Egyptian Tarek Saleh’s new film Boy From Heaven is a riveting political thriller. The film straddles the divide between church and state within the Sunni Islam community.
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Adam is the son of a fisherman in the northern town of Manzala in Egypt. When he is offered to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicentre of Sunni Islam, it is the ultimate privilege. Shortly after Adam arrives the Grand Imam mysteriously dies. Adam finds himself a pawn in a power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite.
The winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes this year, Swedish- Egyptian Tarek Saleh’s new film Boy From Heaven is a riveting political thriller. The film straddles the divide between church and state within the Sunni Islam community.
NT PREMIERE
Adam is the son of a fisherman in the northern town of Manzala in Egypt. When he is offered to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicentre of Sunni Islam, it is the ultimate privilege. Shortly after Adam arrives the Grand Imam mysteriously dies. Adam finds himself a pawn in a power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite.
The winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes this year, Swedish- Egyptian Tarek Saleh’s new film Boy From Heaven is a riveting political thriller. The film straddles the divide between church and state within the Sunni Islam community.
Adam is the son of a fisherman in the northern town of Manzala in Egypt. When he is offered to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicentre of Sunni Islam, it is the ultimate privilege. Shortly after Adam arrives the Grand Imam mysteriously dies. Adam finds himself a pawn in a power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite.
The winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes this year, Swedish- Egyptian Tarek Saleh’s new film Boy From Heaven is a riveting political thriller. The film straddles the divide between church and state within the Sunni Islam community.
DIFF - Boy From Heaven
THU 22 SEP
Coming Soon to
The Darwin International Film Festival
NT PREMIERE
Adam is the son of a fisherman in the northern town of Manzala in Egypt. When he is offered to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicentre of Sunni Islam, it is the ultimate privilege. Shortly after Adam arrives the Grand Imam mysteriously dies. Adam finds himself a pawn in a power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite.
The winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes this year, Swedish- Egyptian Tarek Saleh’s new film Boy From Heaven is a riveting political thriller. The film straddles the divide between church and state within the Sunni Islam community.
