‘Feathers’
Address Omar El Zohairy
interpreters Demyana Nassar, Samy Bassouny, Fady Mina Fawzy, Mohamed Abd El Hady, Abo Sefen Nabil Wesa
Year 2021
premiere September 2, 2022
★★★
The premise may seem a little surreal and grotesque. In an industrial suburb of Egypt, a humble family celebrates the birthday of one of their children amid dances and a magic show, when the despotic patriarch gets lost in one of the figures and finds only a chicken in its place. what follows A clear account of the hardships a single woman and mother of three young children have to go through in the country’s brutal patriarchal society.
Manager Omar El Zohairy He debuts as a director with a curious proposition that distracts him from his subjects. social cinema traditional A very crude adventure, with an almost wordless and darkly humorous point of view, but betting on risk when it comes to recounting it without misery. And despite the filth, the toxicity of the atmosphere, child exploitation, attempted rape, or not protecting a newborn baby. Secret? A different approach where eccentricity goes hand in hand with an everyday life somewhere between the ascetic and the grotesque.
‘Plumas’ denounces machismo, but does so through satire, through eccentricity and with rare precision. From now on, there will always be a movie where a man turns into a chicken that is not even fit for laying eggs.