Cairo Conspiracy

Winner
Best Screenplay
Cannes Film Festival
Nominee
Palme d’Or
Cannes Film Festival
[A] labyrinthine...satisfying thriller.
-- Wendy Ide, Screen International

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Cairo Conspiracy

Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival in Cairo, the university's highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, suddenly dies and Adam soon becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's religious and political elite.

Sweden's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.

Not Rated
Genre
Drama, Religion, Mystery
Runtime
120
Language
Arabic
Director
Tarik Saleh
Writer(s)
Tarik Saleh
Cast
Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares
Awards:
Winner, Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival
Nominee, Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

Tarik Saleh is the Swedish-Egyptian director who made The Nile Hilton Incident in 2017, a shrewd, dyspeptic movie about the official corruption in Egypt that triggered the Tahrir Square uprising. Now in an era when the Arab spring has arguably become a bittersweet memory, he has brought to the ...

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