Date Wine

Story

Synopsis

Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.

Director

Radwan El Kashef

Writers

Abdel Rahman El Abnoudy, Radwan El Kashef

Language

Arabic

Country

Egypt

Release date

23 June 1999

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Sherihan

  Salma

• 

  Abla Kamel

  Salima

• 

  Mohamed Nagaty

  Ahmed Mustafa Ismail

• 

  Manal Afifi

  Shifa

• 

  Hamdy Ahmad

  Mute Grandpa

• 

  Fayza Amasaib

  Grandma Zen

• 

  Gamal Ismail

  Mohammed Ismail

• 

  Seif Abdelrahman

  Salem

• Madiha ElSayed

  Amna

• 

  Lobna Mahmoud

  Umm Salma

• Abdullah Mahmoud

• 

  Kamal Soliman

  Syed