{"id":313782,"date":"2022-06-22T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=313782"},"modified":"2022-06-27T19:57:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:57:13","slug":"egyptian-film-feathers-premieres-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/egyptian-film-feathers-premieres-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian film Feathers premieres in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Egyptian movie Feathers<\/em> (2021, 112 min) premieres on Thursday (23) in movie theaters in S\u00e3o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Niter\u00f3i, and Bras\u00edlia. Egypt\u2019s Omar El Zohairy directed the comedic drama and cowrote the script with Ahmed Amer.<\/p>\n

The movie tells the story of a family from Egypt. When a magic trick goes awry at a children\u2019s birthday party, the authoritative father of the family turns into a chicken. The mysterious transformation sets the family off to a tragically funny adventure of self-discovery to survive without the patriarch.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a story focused on the humans, beings who without consciously searching for it, are led to understand who they really are. (\u2026) My movie talks about how to better connect with others,\u201d the director was quoted as saying in a statement. This is the first feature film by El Zohairy, who added that he decided to resort to the fantastic and the absurdity because he found the reality boring.<\/p>\n

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The father of the family turns into a chicken<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And why a chicken? The filmmaker chose this animal for the transformation because it \u201cis very fragile, and turning a man, an authoritative father figure, into this bird, is very funny (\u2026) And then a chicken is relatively passive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

All the leading actors of the film come from a village in South Egypt. They were noticed by the director on the street or when searching for locations. El Zohairy wanted to create something that was completely new, with people that had no experience in comedy. He didn\u2019t give them a script, didn\u2019t have rehearsals and gave no indication on how to perform on set.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted their reality. I put them in front of the camera and let them say what they want to say. I only gave them the general idea of the scene we were filming, in a very simple way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Feathers premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2021 where it won the Critics\u2019 Week Grand Prize. Feathers <\/em>is a co-production between France, Egypt, Netherlands and Greece.<\/p>\n

Omar El Zohairy was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1988. He studied film directing at the high Institute of Cairo and worked as an assistant for Egyptian feature films. His short films include Breathe Out <\/em>(2011) e The Aftermath of the Inauguration of the Public Toilet at Kilometer 375<\/em>\u00a0(2014), screened in Cannes.<\/p>\n

In S\u00e3o Paulo, the movie will screen at Reserva Cultural starting tomorrow (23) at 1:40 pm, 4:10 pm and 6:40 pm, featuring Brazilian Portuguese subtitles. For more information, please visit the website of Imovision<\/a>, the film distributor in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Watch the trailer below:<\/p>\n