Little Eagles

At a glance

Little Eagles, is a 2016 Egyptian movie, directed by Mohamed Rashad. with a runtime of 77 minutes.

Overview

Little Eagles is an Egyptian drama film that follows Mohammed, the son of a working-class man from Alexandria, as he pursues his dream of moving to Cairo and becoming a filmmaker. In the capital, he befriends Salma and Bassam, two self-assured young people whose parents were left-wing activists in the 1970s. Inspired by their sense of purpose and political inheritance, Mohammed begins searching for similar meaning in his own quiet father's life. As he draws comparisons between generations and classes, his journey as a filmmaker becomes a lens through which past idealism and present reality are brought into dialogue. A reflective drama about identity, ambition, and the long shadow of history.

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