MAD Solutions Releases Director Sherif Nakhla's Music Documentary Les Petits Chats at VOX Cinemas

Back to Press Releases

Also Screening at Zawya and Cimatheque

MAD Solutions Releases Director Sherif Nakhla's Music Documentary Les Petits Chats at VOX Cinemas


MAD Solutions held the premiere of director Sherif Nakhla's music documentary Les Petits Chats yesterday, Tuesday, at VOX Cinemas Mall of Egypt with the attendance of the band members who gained their popularity in the 60's and 70's. Les Petits Chats will be screened at VOX Cinemas for one week starting Wednesday, March 29, until Tuesday, April 4, 2017.

Together with the members of Les Petits Chats, Wagdi Francis, Ezzat Abu Ouf, Pino Fares, Sadek Gallini, Sobhi Bedair and director Sherif Nakhla, the premiere was attended by Ahmad Al Fishawy, Ahmed Malek, Khaled Abol Naga, Amr Waked, Sarah Shahin, Maha Abu Ouf, Mervat Abu Ouf, Mohamed Farrag, Arwa Gouda, Karim Kassem, Ola Roshdy, Nabil Eissa, Ramzi Lehner, Nadia Khairy and director Aida Elkashef.

The rockumentary is set to have other screenings at the Cimatheque - Alternative Film Centre, on Friday, March 31 at 7:00 pm, and Zawya, on Sunday, April 2 at 7:00 pm followed by a discussion with the film's director Sherif Nakhla.

Directed and produced by Sherif Nakhla, the film is named after the legendary band Les Petits Chats of the cherished era of the 60's and 70's. The six members, who are now major celebrities and musicians, are reunited to perform one last time in a night to remember in spring 2010. Les Petits Chats film provides an insight into the lives of the former bandmates during their glory days and answers the questions evoked within each one of them by tracing their present lives and life choices since their breakup in the 80's. The film showcases interviews with major celebrities and cinema stars at that time and nowadays including: Ezzat Abu Ouf, Omar Khairat, Sobhi Bedair, Samir Sabri and Mohamed Salmawy.

Les Petits Chats has landed its world premiere at the 18th Arabian Sights Film Festival for Contemporary Arab Cinema in Washington, DC in 2015, where the film received a nomination for the Arabian Sights Jury Prize. Within its premiere, the film captivated the audiences and the "full-house" signs were raised during its two screenings. The film also took part in several international film festivals, including the Cascade Festival of African Films in Portland, USA, the Silk Road Film Festival in Dublin, Ireland and the Arab Cinema Week in New York.

Sherif Nakhla is an Egyptian director and producer, who was born in Boston and spent his childhood in the US before returning to the Arab world. He graduated with a double major in Theater and Mass Communications from the American University in Cairo. Shortly afterwards, Sherif worked for Al-Ahram Weekly, writing for the culture section while also producing and directing plays, such as Moliereʼs Don Juan, which marked the opening of the 2003 Theatre Festival at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Eugene Ionescoʼs The Lesson at El Sawy Culture Wheel. In 2005, Nakhla left the newspaper and had a two year stint in advertising with Tarek Nour Communications, before becoming a Sauvé Scholar at McGill University in 2007.

His first work after graduation was a short film called Miraculum (2006) discussing the taboo topic of a Muslim/Christian teenage love stories -an issue deliberately left out of public dialogue. This film participated in more than 25 international film festivals, winning three awards including the Best Sociopolitical Film at the New York Independent International Film Festival. In 2009, Nakhla began working on his first feature documentary Les Petits Chats, and he is currently in the process of making his first feature film.