Gunshot Closes the 8th Malmo Arab Film Festival

Director Karim El Shenawy and writer Haitham Dabbour's new feature film Gunshot will close the 8^thMalmo Arab Film Festival (5 - 9 October) with a screening to be held on October 9^th at Cinema Royal at 05:30 PM (GMT+2).

 

A few days ago, iProductions and Film Clinic released a series of teaser videos for the characters of Gunshot, including Dr. Yassin (Ahmad Al Fishawy), the journalist Maha (Ruby), Khaled (Mohamed Mamdouh), Salma (Asmaa Aboul Yazeed), and Sayedat (Arfa Abdel Rassoul).This comes ahead of the film's world premiere at the second edition of El Gouna Film Festival.

 

Amid deadly clashes with anti-riot forces, bodies start piling in Cairo's morgue. While examining the cadaver of Alaa Abu Zayd, the forensic doctor notices something unusual.The doctor, who is alcohol dependent and battles personal and family problems, writes a medical report that stirs media frenzy, public anger, and accusations of political and ethical corruption. Along with a hard-working journalist, they undertake a journey seeking facts, where their perception of truth, their principles and beliefs are challenged, and they are forced to face the dilemma of their life.

 

Produced by iProductions and co-produced by Film Clinic, Gunshot stars Ahmad Al Fishawy, Ruby,   Mohamed Mamdouh, Arfa Abdel Rassoul, and Asmaa Aboul Yazeed, along with guest stars Ahmed Malek, Hana Shiha, Ahmad Kamal, Safaa El Toukhy, Samy Maghawry, and Mohamed Radwan. The film's crew includes; DOP Abdel Salam Mousa, Costume Designer Nahed Nasrallah, Set Designer Ali Hossam Ali, Line Producer Ahmed Youssef, Editor Ahmed Hafez, Sound Engineer Ahmed Adnane, Sound Mixing by Ahmed Abul Saad, Composer Amine Bouhafa, and General Supervisor Ahmed Fahmy.

 

It's worth mentioning that the latest film produced by iProductions is Sheikh Jackson last year, and The Guest by director Hadi El Bagoury is set to release soon.

 

 iProductions is a fully-fledged production company that was established in 2013 in Egypt as a content production arm of O-Media Holding media investments and its subsidiary PromOmedia.

 

iProductions aims to be a truly integrated content company that develops, produces and distributes high quality content, catering to the Egyptian and the pan-Arab market. The company also strives to produce entertainment TV shows and all sorts of content. Along with focusing on local and regional content, iProductions is also keen on keeping track of international unique content to acquire remake rights.

 

iProductions's work include Al-Saba' Wasaya (The Seven Commandments) TV Series (2014), Barakat Malik Al Harakat TV Show (2014), Sadeq El Omr TV Series (2014), Wedding Song TV Series (2016), and the films Hepta: The Last Lecture (2016), Mawlana (2017), and Sheikh Jackson (2017), in addition to Gunshot and The Guest that are set to release soon.

 

Film Clinic was founded in 2005 by renowned Producer and Screenwriter Mohamed Hefzy as a production company offering screenwriting workshops and specialized in producing feature films and documentaries. Now considered as one of the leading production companies in the MENA region that not only creates unique features, but also empowers talents to do so, Film Clinic has been best known for creating innovative films that serve as creative alternatives to the mainstream cinema in the Arab film market.

 

Film Clinicproduced a number of Egyptian, Arab and international award-winning feature films that won more than 150 awards during their participation in more than 350 international film festivals; including Cannes, Sundance, BFI London, Toronto, Dubai, Cairo and Carthage Film festivals. Two of Film Clinic film productions have been selected as Egypt's official submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film; Clash and Sheikh Jackson. Film Clinic has also achieved unprecedented commercial success with film blockbusters, such as Samir wa Shahir wa Bahir(2010), Banat El 3am (2012), Excuse My French (2014) and Hepta: The Last Lecture (2016).