On a Monday
On a Monday
Credits
Title: On a Monday
Original Title: Youm el-Ethneen
Language versions: Arabic original version or Arabic with English, French, or Spanish subtitles
Country: Egypt
Year: 2004
Length: 7 min
Color: Color
Director: Tamer El-Said
Screenplay: Tamer el-Said
Editing: Tamer el-Said
Featuring: Boutrus Ghali, Hanan Yousef
Production: Tamer el-Said
World Sales: mec film
Festivals: Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya (LB), Internationaler Wettbewerb Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (FR), Sakia Festival for Short Feature Films Cairo (EG), Internationaler Wettbewerb Aspen Short Film Festival (USA), Special screening at Emirates Film Competition (AE), "Arabic Panorama”, Abou Dhabi (AE), 3rd Independent Film Encounter Russian Cultural Center Cairo (EG), “Image Encounter”, French cultural center Cairo (EG), 11th National Film Festival for the Egyptian Cinema (EG), Arab Cinema Film Festival Zurich (CH), 5th Arab Film Festival Rotterdam (NL), 33rd Festival of Nations Ebensee (AT), 2nd Al-Fayoum Short Film Festival, 11th Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy (FR), 56th International Short Film Festival, Montecatini Terme (IT), The international Short film competition, of the "Leopards of Tomorrow", of the 58th Locarno International Film Festival (CH), 22nd Kelibia International Independent Film Festival (TN), 9th Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentary and Short Films (EG), The official competition of the Mediterranean 3rd Short Film Festival Tangier (EG), Iraq Short Film Festival (IQ), 27th Festival International Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier (FR), CinemaEast Film Festival New York (USA), 12th Regensburg Short Film Week (DE), Special screening in Kerala Film Festival (IN), 8th Arab Cinema Biannual in Paris (FR)
Awards: 2005: Special Jury award at Sakia Festival for Short Feature Films, Cairo (EG), Best short film award at “Image Encounter”, French cultural center, Cairo (EG), Best short film award at 11th National Film Festival for the Egyptian Cinema, Cairp (EG), Silver Hawk for the short fictions at 5th Arab Film Festival, Rotterdam (NL), Best short film award at 2nd Al-Fayoum Short Film Festival (EG), Ebenseer Bear in Silver award at 33rd Festival of Nations, (AT), Best film award “Faucon d’OR” at 22nd Kelibia International Independent Film Festival (TN), Special Jury award at the Mediterranean 3rd Short Film Festival, Tangier (MA)
Age Recommendation: 12
Comments
Related Films
-
*NEW*
The One Man Village
An attempt to understand the aftermath of the civil war in Lebanon and its attendant questions of memory and healing through the story of one man.
-
*NEW*
Waiting for Sallah el Din
Sallah el-Din Alayobe (Salladin) was a 12th century Muslim leader who succeeded in uniting the divided Muslim-Arab state. His name has come to symbolize a sense of longing for a new leader.
-
*NEW*
Diary of a Male Whore
A painfully brutal tale of the sexual awakening of a young Palestinian who works as a male prostitute in Tel Aviv. His encounter with an elderly Jewish man in Tel Aviv stirs memories of his past.
-
The Shooter
Palestine is occupied by the international media and is the stage for sensational news stories. THE SHOOTER rebels against this image and subverts the staged representation of this war-torn country.
-
*NEW*
Alpha
The final minutes of an intimate night between two women. What begins as a fragile promise of harmony ends in the relationship’s demise.
-
*NEW*
Masha
A woman in her mid-twenties and a fourteen year old boy face each other in the woman's bedroom. The woman is a director, and the boy cannot refuse her orders.
-
*NEW*
Alligator
Twenty-two year old Ilana and her mother always fight. Ilana then runs off and wanders the dark and ruthless streets of Tel Aviv, where she seeks human closeness and intimacy.
-
*NEW*
The North Road
Karim, a forty-something living in France, returns to his home village in Lebanon to bury the remains of his father. Director Carlos Chahine's bittersweet journey into the past.
-
*NEW*
Lesh Sabreen?
In today's Jerusalem the dreams of a young Arabic couple are thwarted by conservative attitudes, economic hardships and the weight of the Israeli occupation.
-
*NEW*
Mikdamot
Israeli author S. Yizhar reads the first chapters of his autobiography “MIKDAMOT” (“Preliminaries” in Hebrew), which reflects on Israel's founding father generation and the successes and failings of the Zionist dream.
-
*NEW*
New Skin
Quite a few people use public washrooms. Some people don't have a bathroom of their own and some prefer to bathe in public facilities.
