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Waiting for Pasolini

  • En attendant Pasolini (Fi Ntidhar Pasolini)
Genre : Comedy
Type : Fiction
Original title : Fi Intidar Pasolini
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2007
Format : Feature
Running time : 114 (in minutes)

In this comedy, a satellite dish salesman Thami, a former extra, befriended the great director Pier Paolo Pasolini during the shooting of Oedipus Rex in Ouarzazate in 1966. Forty years later, an Italian crew comes back to Ouarzazate to prepare the shooting of a film about the Bible. Thami is convinced that his friend Pasolini is back in town, thus triggering cinema fever in the whole village.


Directed by: Daoud Aoulad-Syad
Morocco / 2007 / 90 mins / 35 mm / Arabic with English Subtitles

Casting: Mohamed Majd, Mohamed Bastaoui


FESTIVALS

2008 | NYASAFF (New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival) | NEW YOR, Usa | March 5-16, 2008 | www.nyasaff.org |
> US Premiere


2007 | Cairo Film Festival | CAIRO, Egypt | 27th november - 7th december | www.cairofilmfest.org |
> International Competition > Winner: Best Arab Film Prize

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