The Chair Carrier

At a glance

The Chair Carrier, is a 2010 Saudi movie, directed by Tarek Khalil, and starring Magdy Idris, Hassan Abdulfattah. with a runtime of 11 minutes.

Overview

The Chair Carrier is a political allegorical film set in the slums of old Cairo, following Sayed, a defeated man who exists in a fog of government propaganda and grinding poverty. One day he encounters an ancient Egyptian porter wandering the streets with a pharaonic throne on his back, searching for his lost king. Captivated, Sayed wants nothing more than to sit on the throne — if only for five minutes, to feel what power feels like. This simple, haunting premise becomes a sharp study of internalized oppression in the developing world, examining how systems of power perpetuate themselves not just from above, but through the self-limiting beliefs they instill in those they crush.

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