Mahmoud Lotfy
Biography
Egyptian filmmaker, writer, and producer. He has participated in numerous independent Egyptian films and wrote and directed his feature film Experimental Summer, which was screened at the Forum Expanded section of the Berlin International Film Festival and won the Best Film Award at the Mileto Independent Film Festival in Italy. He has also produced several films, including No One There, Batoul, and A Comb Without Teeth. On the literary front, he published the novel Book of Longing and is currently working on new cinematic and literary projects.
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Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Mahmoud
Both Mahmoud and Zeinab join hands to search for the original version of the first Egyptian independent film that was made back in the 1980s, all copies of which were either destroyed or confiscated for unknown reasons by the government film agency, an entity that governed film production and distribution at the time.