Competition #9

The Cow’s Complaint

شكوى البقرة

  • Mahdy Abo Bahat
  • Abdo Zin Eldin
  • 2026
  • Egypt, France, United Kingdom
  • 95'
  • Arabic
    • Sat 21
    • March
    • 18h00
    • Saint André des Arts 3
    • Book
    • + débats/Q&As
    • Mon 23
    • March
    • 16h30
    • Arlequin 1
    • Book
In the same session: The Longest Night
In the same session: The Longest Night
  • © Abdo Zin Eldin, Mahdy Abo Bahat, GRAVEGOOD PRODUCTION LTD. SUPERNOVA FILMS
    © Abdo Zin Eldin, Mahdy Abo Bahat, GRAVEGOOD PRODUCTION LTD. SUPERNOVA FILMS

Ali Al Gazzar – a Sufi sculptor – encounters a visitation at midday. The guest spurs Ali to return to his creations, igniting him with the spiritual imagination of Sufi peasants, peripheral objects and rural animals in Cairo’s City of the Dead.

Mahdy Abo Bahat and Abdo Zin Eldin, Egyptian artist-filmmakers from Cairo, have a 10-year practice rooted in sound and image through audio field recordings and street videography. Their fixation with moving-image stems from a need to document whilst witnessing the Egyptian upheaval in 2011. Now they are committed to their documentary practice by assembling hauntologies that summon beings, worlds, and times deemed immemorial by the current ruling discourse. The Goose’s Excuse has been shown in Cinema du Reel in 2024.

    • Sat 21
    • March
    • 18h00
    • Saint André des Arts 3
    • Book
    • + débats/Q&As
    • Mon 23
    • March
    • 16h30
    • Arlequin 1
    • Book
In the same session: The Longest Night
  • Subtitles : original version with French and English subtitles
  • Production companies : Gravegood Production LTD, Supernova Films
  • Photography : Abdo Zin Eldin, Mahdy Abo Bahat
  • Sound : Mahdy Abo Bahat, Panos Chountoulidis
  • Editing : Mahdy Abo Bahat

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