Yomeddine

There was some hopeful curiosity when Egyptian debut feature Yomeddine was announced as part of the Cannes competition line-up. Based on NYU-graduate director AB Shawky’s short film The Colony, which follows a group of lepers in Egypt, this ambitious film focuses on Beshay (Rady Gamal), a fortysomething man suffering from the disease. It’s a human perspective rarely represented in cinema.