My Father Looks Like Hassan Fathy

The film follows the Egyptian 60-year-old architect, Tarek Waly, in his struggle to revive the model village of New Gourna, in Luxor, built in the 1940s by his mentor Hassan Fathy, the most famous representative of the local Egyptian modernism, after being commissioned by the UNESCO to restore it.

LENGTH

Feature

GENRE

Documentary

PRODUCED IN

Egypt

STATUS

In Development

WITH THE HELP OF

Connection

meet the director

Born in 1990, Sama Waly is a researcher in cultural history and a filmmaker. As a Masters graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she writes, teaches, curates and edits publications in the cultural sector in Cairo, besides working on several artistic projects between Cairo and Chicago.

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Mark Lotfy is an Egyptian filmmaker and producer who established Fig Leaf Studios in 2005, and produced award winning feature films and documentaries, such as Dream Away and I Have A Picture, that were officially selected in international festivals like: Berlinale, São Paulo, Karlovy Vary and London film festivals etc.

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My Father Looks Like Hassan Fathy

LENGTH

Feature

GENRE

Documentary

PRODUCED IN

STATUS

WITH THE HELP OF

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