Boy from Heaven (ولد من الجنة)

Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival in Cairo, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, suddenly dies and Adam soon becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Eqypt’s religious and political elite.

“Elections, as everyone knows, are too important to be left up to chance, and so the world is constantly inventing ways to ensure their desired outcome. In Egypt, where the choice of a new grand imam is concerned – a lifetime appointment, whose fatwas impact national law – the process doesn’t even pretend to be democratic: the successful candidate is selected from a small Supreme Council of Scholars, with considerations the outside world will never know. But we can wonder, which is where Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker Tarik Saleh comes in, imagining the equivalent of a John Grisham thriller set inside Cairo’s world-famous Al-Azhar University.” - Variety