Experimental Summer

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Experimental Summer, is a 2017 Egyptian movie, directed by Mahmoud Lotfy, and starring Zainab Magdy, Essam Esmail, Mahmoud Eissa. with a runtime of 69 minutes.

Overview

Experimental Summer is an Egyptian drama that doubles as a cinematic detective story. Mahmoud and Zeinab join forces to track down the original print of Egypt's first independent film, produced in the 1980s — a work whose every known copy was either destroyed or seized by the government film agency for reasons that remain unexplained. Their search becomes a journey through the hidden corners of Egyptian cinema history, unearthing questions about censorship, institutional power, and the films that never got to be seen. The movie is both a love letter to independent filmmaking and a meditation on how histories are erased.

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