DREAMAWAY (2018)

Duration: 85 min.
World Premiere: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

It hasn’t been so very long since rich tourists from around the world came to stay in the luxury hotels of Sharm El Sheikh. But the Arab Spring and the confusion of the post revolutionary period quickly robbed the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula of its charm as a go-to summer resort. An Egyptian filmmaker and a visual artist from Germany demonstrate that partially staging their work needn’t be at odds with authenticity. In their documentary, saturated with elements of surreal fiction, they set out to visit the last inhabitants of the shimmering city of ghosts – resort employees who feverishly dream among the abandoned hotel suites. How hard is it to balance a traditional lifestyle with the unbridled liberalism of a place in a Middle Eastern wasteland where an island of Western razzle-dazzle is slowly sinking?

Festivals:
- Moscow International Documentary Film Festival - DOKER, Russia
- 33rd International Filmfestival Fribourg, Switzerland
- 8th Luxor International Filmfestival, Egypt
- 41th Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt
- 54th Karlovy aVary International FIlm Festival, CZ
- 62nd BFI London Film Festival, Great Britain
- 2nd El Gouna International Film Festival, Egypt
- 63rd Dok- Leipzig, Internationales Festival fur Dokemntarfilm, Germany
- BIFF Bergen International Film Festival, Norway
- 54th Chicago International Film Festival, USA.

Awards:
Selected as Best Egyptian Film released in cinema by the Egyptian Critics Association, Egypt
Shortlisted for Oscar nomination, Egypt national section, Egypt
Special Mentioning, Tripoli Film Festival, Lebanon
The Bild-Kunst Schnitt Preis Documentary at Filmplus/Edimotion, Germany
Critics Award of the International Filmfestival Fribourg, Switzerland
Award for best artistic achievement, Luxor International Film Festival, Egypt