Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
Al-Sandawich (The Sandwich)
Courtisane: Out of the Shadows
12'
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1975
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Dialogue:
Arabic
Director:
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
The Sandwich explores the daily life and work of children in Abnoud, a rural village located 600 kilometres to the south
of Cairo, where the trains that carry the tourists to the south
of Egypt pass through without stopping.
The Sandwich explores the daily life and work of children in Abnoud, a rural village located 600 kilometres to the south of Cairo, where the trains that carry the tourists to the south of Egypt pass through without stopping. A boy outsmarts the meagerness of his circumstances by dripping goat’s milk on a piece of stale bread and turning it into a special sandwich.
Film prints courtesy of Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art.
“I believe film is a language I can use to say many things, a poem, a short story. I once made a film without a single
word in it about one day in the life of children in the
village of Abnoud. At lunch, you know, they take their
bread and go to the cow’s udder for milk, just to have
something on the bread! That’s how poor they are.”
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Director
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
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Dialogue
Arabic
Countries of production
Egypt
Year
1975
