Retour en Alexandrie
Back to Alexandria
Switzerland / France / Qatar, September 2023
FILM,
Fiction,
95 min.
- directed by
- Tamer Ruggli
- Written by
- Tamer Ruggli, Marianne Brun, Yousry Nasrallah
- Status
- In distribution
After twenty years of absence, Sue must return to her native Egypt to see her mother Fairouz, an eccentric aristocrat from whom she has been estranged. This surprising journey, leading her from Cairo back to Alexandria, tinted with distant memories, nostalgia, and mixed feelings about her past, will allow Sue to become the empowered woman she ought to be.
credits
- World Premiere
- September 2023
- Original Version
- Arabic, French (french/english subtitles), colour, DCP, 95 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-C7E4-0000-9-0000-0000-A
- Production
- Tipi'mages Productions, Les Films de la Capitaine, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, ART Arab Radio and Television Network, Doha Film Institute
- Producer
- Francine Lusser, Gérard Monier, Laurine Pelassy
- directed by
- Tamer Ruggli
- Written by
- Tamer Ruggli, Marianne Brun, Yousry Nasrallah
- Cinematography
- Thomas Hardmeier
- Editing
- Thomas Bachmann
- Location Sound Mix
- Jürg Lempen
- Sound Editing
- Grégoire Chauvot
- Sound Design
- Denis Séchaud
- Music
- Pierre Funck
- Costumes
- Anna Van Brée
- Make up
- Nathalie Tanner
Cast
Fanny Ardant
Nadine Labaki
Eva Monti as Bobby
Manuela Biedermann as Madame Dubois
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- Orange Studio
Worldwide Distribution
- France
- DHR distribution films Distribution
- Lebanon
-
MC Distribution SAL
Distribution
Release date: 18.07.2024 - Switzerland
-
Agora Films
Distribution
Release date: 31.01.2024
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Cairo, 46th Cairo International Film Festival
13.11.2024 - 22.11.2024 -
Rio de Janeiro, 26th Festival do Rio - Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
03.10.2024 - 13.10.2024 -
Locarno, 77° Locarno Film Festival
07.08.2024 - 17.08.2024 -
Solothurn, 59. Solothurner Filmtage
17.01.2024 - 24.01.2024 -
Cairo, 45th Cairo International Film Festival
15.11.2023 - 24.11.2023 -
Hof, 57. Internationale Filmtage Hof
24.10.2023 - 29.10.2023 -
Zurich, 19. Zurich Film Festival
28.09.2023 - 08.10.2023