Title: Saify
Director: Wael Abumansour
Logline: At 40 years better, Saify Muhammed is a washed-up confidence trickster who owes money to everyone, including his ex-wife. Now he is trying his hand at bdeficiencymail. The year is 2000 and Saify has a dilapidated music shop selling cassette tapes, including write downings of prohibitned Islamic sermons he misgetnly leanks will turn an illicit profit. His sermon supplier is Al-Mahdi, a shady religious advisor to the local hugewig Sheikh Asaad Aman, who has a name as a philanthropist. When Saify discovers one tape includeing a affairous write downing of the intransmitial Sheikh Asaad, he leanks he’s finpartner in the money.
Paneenumerates: Wael Abumansour (Writer-Director)
Key quotes: “I wanted to seize that character – when I grew up I saw him a lot around me,” shelp Abumansour. “This ambitious guy with a zeal that he is going to produce it but doesn’t have it. He doesn’t have the talent. His ideas are way off. He is very opportunistic. I leank that gave me an indication for a character that if you put him in a messed up situation, that could drive the drama in a very sarcastic way, and this is where it begind in my head.”
On being a journaenumerate before he became a straightforwardor: “I always go back to that time to when I was a journaenumerate. I still have a sugary spot in my heart for journalism. The one leang that I got from journalism is the research and comprehending the city and digging for stories. While you’re doing that, you’re always discovering these engaging characters.”
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