Hani

At a glance

Hani, is a Egyptian movie, directed by Mohamed Allam, and starring Ahmed Malek, Ahmed Tarek. Amina Onsy.

Overview

Hani is an Egyptian drama film set between 1997 and 1998, two years after the mysterious disappearance of a young man named Hani. His friend Sahar discovers his videotapes and watches them as a way of rediscovering who he was and what they meant to each other. The tapes reveal Hani as a final-year university student living in Cairo with his family while his father works in Kuwait — a passionate metalhead and amateur photographer who documented everything: his room, his thoughts, his friend Sameer, and Sahar herself. Shot in a deeply intimate found-footage style, the film reconstructs a vanished life through the personal archive its subject left behind.

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