Jawad Altawil as Sheikh Omar Beblawi in Boy from Heaven (2022). Photo: ATMO About the film Adam, the son of a fisherman, is granted a scholarship at the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo. When Sheikh Al-Azhar, the highest authority in sunni Islam suddenly dies, a power struggle starts; who will become the next Grand Imam? At State Security, investigator Ibrahim has been ordered to make sure it will be the one the president wants. When his informant inside Al-Azhar gets brutally murdered, Ibrahim needs a replacement, someone without connections or contacts. Adam fits the part perfect.
Contact person Oskar Röhlander, oskar.rohlander@si.se
New initiative This title has world-wide distribution and SI will guide you to the distributor in your country. In case there is no distributor, SI will help arrange a screening. Financial support can still be granted for the peripheral costs surrounding the event.
Footnote Shortlisted for the Academy Awards (the Oscars) 2023. Screening materials are only sent from SI when local distributors are unable to deliver for physical screenings.
Film facts Original title: Boy From Heaven
Director: Tarik Saleh
Director’s biography: Tarik Saleh has a background as one of the most influential graffiti artists in Europe in the 80’s. His dramatic feature film debut came with Metropia (2009), a dystopic animation with Stellan and Alexander Skarsgård, Juliette Lewis, Vincent Gallo and Udo Kier. The film premiered at Venice Film Festival as opening film for Critics’ Week. His film The Nile Hilton Incident won ‘The Grand Jury Prize’ at Sundance 2017, received a Guldbagge Award for ‘Best film’ in 2018, was nominated as ‘Best Foreign Film’ at the César Awards and was a box office hit with more than 400 thousand tickets sold in France. He directed The Contractor (2022) starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster and Kiefer Sutherland. Episodes of the futuristic HBO-series Westworld (2018) and Ray Donavon for Showtime. In 2014 he directed the Swedish thriller Tommy (2014). He is also known for his collaborations with singer Lykke Li. The music video I Follow Rivers has over 60 million views on YouTube. Tarik Saleh also directed the documentaries Gitmo: The New Rules of War (2005) and Sacrificio: Who Betrayed Che Guevara (2001) together with Erik Gandini. In 2000 Tarik Saleh founded the production company Atmo together with producer Kristina Åberg.
Screenplay: Tarik Saleh
With: Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Makram Khouri, Mehdi Dehbi, Mohammed Bakri
Production: Kristina Åberg, Fredrik Zander for Atmo Rights AB
Age limit: suitable for 11 years or older
Time: Colour, 126 min
National release: 2022
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