ASMAA

Sunday, September 2nd 2012
6:30 pm Filmrauschpalast

ASMAA

Audience Award International Film Festival Fribourg, Switzerland

Fiction / Egypt 2011 / Arabic / English Subtitles / 96 min

Director & Screenwriter: Amr Salama
Producer: Mohamed Hefzy
DOP: Ahmed Gabr
Editor: Amr Salah El din
Music Supervisor: Ahmad Adnan
Production Designer: Hend Haider
Cast: Hend Sabry, Maged El Kedwani, Hani Adel, Ahmad Kamal, Sayed Ragab, Botros Ghali

Asmaa is an HIV positive female in her 40’s. After the death of her husband, she moved to Cairo, where she lives with her father and her teenage daughter. Asmaa suffers from the feelings of social seclusion and fear of her illness being exposed, even to those closest to her.
For months, Asmaa has been suffering from a benign infection and due to her illness, no doctor has agreed to carry out the surgery that could easily treat her.
Asmaa must find a solution before her condition becomes fatal.
Her chance comes when she is offered to appear on a famous TV talk-show, a last chance for her to fight the system and secure her right for treatment. With only hours to decide, Asmaa must choose between revealing her secret, or continue to suffer in silence…

Sunday, September 2nd 2012
6:30 pm Filmrauschpalast

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