Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking hash with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house.
Acting
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz's blind swagger is pure cinematic magic.
Cinematography
Cairo's Kit Kat neighborhood breathes as its own character.
Direction
Daoud Abdel Sayed balances despair and absurdity like breathing.
Director
Daoud Abdel Sayed
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
Sheikh Hosny
Sherif Mounir
Youssef
Aaidah Riyadh
Fatima
Nagah El-Mogui
Al Haram
Ahmed Kamal
Suliman
Ahmed Sami Abdallah
Megahed
Amina Rizk
Sheikh Hosny's mother
Ali Hassanein
Sheikh Abied
Othman Abdel Monem
Attiya
Galeela Mahmoud
Fathia - wife of Usta Hassan
Gehan Nasr
Rawayeh
Amal Ibrahim
Awateef - Umm Rawayh
Salah Sadeq
Ramadan
Nadia Shams El Dine
Umm Fatima
Mohamed Gibreel
Usta Hassan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kit Kat neighborhood was Cairo's bohemian quarter, home to artists, addicts, and dreamers—now mostly demolished. The film preserves a vanished world.
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz spent weeks blindfolded to prepare; Daoud Abdel Sayed refused to let him use contact lenses that would fake blindness.
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