My Mohamed Is Different (2021)

• 67%
• 2021
• Documentary
• Ines Marzouk

Golden-age Sarannah is married to Hamdy, an Egyptian man 30-years her junior. Could this be true love - or is it yet another unspoken 'business' relationship so often seen in contemporary Luxor? Sarannah feels she was given a new shot at life at 50 and can now re-live her youth. Madly in love with Hamdy, all she wants to do is spend time with him and enjoy life. In her eyes, he is not like the other gold-digging Egyptian men. Certainly not like Khaled, who married her friend Nerchia, before finding a much younger 2nd Egyptian wife to provide him with children. Nerchia struggles to accept that the kind loving man she loved changed so drastically. She has to make hard decisions now that she knows his true color. As for Abdel-Rahim, a local tour guide married with 2 kids, he will do anything to find a well-to-do foreign woman to secure his future. In the primitive part of the touristic city of Luxor, locals try to escape poverty by marrying older, foreign women. Abdel, like many others, connects with women online to entice them to move to Luxor. It is through an online platform he connects with an older German woman, Monica. After a few months of online romance, she falls for him, moves to Luxor and promises to take care of him. Through confessional meetings with these couples, we get a rare and honest insight into these relationships - mutual arrangements of a sort, that blurs the boundaries between business and romance.