The Art of Telling (2010)

• 73%
• 2010
• Emmanuelle Demoris

People of Mafrouza, a shantytown of Alexandria in Egypt, show lucid and strong vitality. Their thoughts and hearts are free in front of Muslim Brothers, who seized their mosque. In the center, Mohamed Khattab, grocer and sheik of the neighborhood, is resisting with irony or gravity, explaining his 'strategy', his rage and his intention to . Later, he will be the one who will express complicity and tenderness for the camera, because it's time of separation after these two years of shooting in the neighborhood. The Art of Telling is the last part of the Mafrouza film project that includes 5 installments, shot along two years in the area. Each film can be seen independently.