Eye of the Sun

(2009)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 118 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2009

Runtime: 90 мин

Country: Egypt

Director: Ibrahim El Batout

Cast: Ramadan Khater, Hanan Youssef, بطرس غالي, Farah Youssef, محمد جمال قلبظ, Maryam Saleh, Aly Sobhy, Hanan Adel, Nabiha Lotfy

Plot

Shams is a young girl who resides in the local neighborhood of Ain Shams. The life of the family turns into a tragedy when they learn their young Shams has leukemia, and they try to fulfill her only wish to visit Downtown Cairo.

I enjoyed the movie Ein Shams more than I can tell, yes, it's not the best film I've seen directing wise, and sometimes it goes into a long meaningless "Blah", but at least it's one of the few Egyptian movies that actually talks about Egypt itself. In the Egyptian movies usually you see a young and beautiful girl and a restless boy who falls in love, then there's tons of comic situations here and there, before they get married and we see the happy ending .. this movie is trying to tell you more about Egypt, and the Egyptians themselves .. it's more of an eye that looks and records the reality, without a script, without any filtering.I advice you all to go and see the movie.