release date March 06 2022
Communion Joins Luxor African Film Festival
Communion by director Nejib Belkadhi shall join the 11th edition of the Luxor African Film Festival (March 4th-10th), to screen within its Long Narrative section on Monday, March 7th, at 1:30 PM (GMT +2) at the Culture Palace.
The Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) is one of ISF’s projects. The festival was the idea of writer Sayed Fouad and director Azza Elhosseiny, as African films were rarely screened in Egypt. Furthermore, Luxor hardly has any cultural or artistic events, and was therefore selected to decentralize cultural or artistic events that were always being organized in Cairo and Alexandria.
Landing its Arab and world premiere at Red Sea International Film Festival, the film project has previously received the Red Sea Fund, as well as MAD Solutions award for distribution and marketing services, Color grading services presented by Mosaic-TV, and Sound mixing services presented by Leyth Production at the MAFF Market Forum (MMF). It also received a grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC.
During the lockdown, Sarra works from home in the humanitarian sector, helping people in distress during the Covid-19 crisis. Her husband Kais, psychotic, finds himself without medication, out of stock. Then begins the downfall to hell. Meanwhile nature regains its rights, and the air becomes purer and more breathable...
Communion is written and directed by Nejib Belkadhi, who also co-stars in the film alongside Souhir Ben Amara. It is produced by Imed Marzouk, and Nejib Belkadhi, and MAD Solutions handles the film’s distribution in the Arab world
Nejib Belkadhi is a Tunisian director and actor who was born in 1972 in Tunisia. After studying Business and Marketing at the IHEC Carthage, he started his first steps as a director on the TV program Chams Alik at Canal + Horizons in 1999. In 2002, he founded Propaganda Productions with his friend Imed Marzouk who later became his producer. In 2005 he directed his first short film called "Tsawer”, which was selected in more than 30 festivals of 11 countries.
In 2006, his feature-length documentary VHS-Kahloucha participated in more than 50 festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival, where it landed its world premiere. The film won 7 awards in various festivals, including Best Documentary Award at Dubai International Film Festival. In 2013, his first feature film "Bastardo" world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was selected in competition at CINEMED. The film also screened at 30 festivals later, winning 11 international awards. Moreover, his second feature film “Look at me” was released in 2018, participating in TIFF and more than twenty other international festivals.
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