Azziara "The Visit" (2015)
Duration: 43 min.
World Premiere: Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
An inspection team from the World Bank arrives in an Egyptian village a few years after the revolution to assess how the transformation of agricultural management has progressed since the political upheaval. All of the activities are, as required, recorded by a television crew. We watch a drainage channel being built and visit the local museum. Everything seems to be as it should. However, the documentary’s authors leave the camera switched on even after the television crew has finished their work. As a result, the official record includes behind-the-scenes views and the members of the television crew become just additional actors in the film.
Festivals:
- CinemAfrica, Sweeden
- Luxor African Film Festival, Egypt.
- Goethe Film Week - Kario
- Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival
- Rencontres de L'image film week at the French Cultural Centre, Cairo, Egypt.
- 6° Lima Independiente International Film Festival, Peru.
- Encounters south African international documentary film festival, South Africa.
