The Ferryman

At a glance

The Ferryman, is a 1995 Egyptian movie, directed by Kariem Diaa Aldeen, and starring Salah El-Saadany, Maaly Zayed, Mamdouh Wafi. with a runtime of 107 minutes.

Overview

The Ferryman is a warm Egyptian social comedy that turns the spotlight on bureaucracy and identity documentation through the story of Ahmed, a simple fisherman who decides to enroll his son in school. When he attempts to complete the paperwork, he makes a disquieting discovery: he has no national ID card and his son has no birth certificate. What should be a routine administrative task spirals into a cascade of comic misadventures as Ahmed sets out to officially register his children, navigating an indifferent system that seems designed to exclude people like him. A charming and quietly pointed film about citizenship, dignity, and ordinary people caught in bureaucratic absurdity.

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