أوضة الفيران (The Mice Room)

synopsis

Six different characters roaming in Alexandria along with their fears. Amr comes back to meet his father on his death bed, not sure how he can speak up and show his true feelings. Moussa spends his day afraid of crossing a street until he makes amends with his side of the road. Dahlia, on her wedding day, seems lost in worries about her off-white marriage. The young girl discovers her grandmother’s decay through her play time. After her husband’s death, Rawya starts a habit of sleeping late, however, discovers a new exciting life at night. Maha, packing for leaving the country, starts questioning the changes that happened or might happen in her life. They share the same creepy feelings in the same city but never meet.

about the filmmakers

Morsy, El Hadidi, Zayed, Bakr, Zedan and Salem have always been interested in filmmaking. They joined an independent filmmaking workshop at the Jesuit Cultural Centre in 2009/2010. They have always worked in each others films and they all worked in Ibrahim El Batout’s feature “Hawi” in 2010. Together they founded Rufy’s; an initiative that supports independent filmmakers in Alexandria, Egypt. It is producing and co-producing a handful of diverse films that are currently going through different production phases. “The Mice Room” is their first feature.