Red & Blue

  • Bleu, rouge (Red & Blue | Azraa Wa Ahmar)
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2006
Format : Short
Running time : 11 (in minutes)

A young man and a girl are having a secret love affair. In a society that will never support such an illegal relationship, the two are faced with a serious dilemma when the bed falls as they are making love and they run the risk of being exposed.

Cast
Bassem Samra
Reem Hegab

Director Statement
Usually there are world-wide events and disasters, but at the same time there are other small crises in parallel to it, living on the margins of society. This film is presenting this small crisis from both its social and human sides. Concerning the social side, the film shows the power of the family and how the eastern society commits the unofficial love affairs between youth, on the other hand the society complicates everything if the lovers needed to make their relationship official.The film presents a small aside crisis that happens to a young man and his girl that love each other, but they are submitted to the power and guardianship of the society all over the time. Which may lead to a big split inside them and between each other. Concerning the humanity side, the film shows how sometimes we believe that it'll be a disaster if something special happens and that we will come to the rescue if we prevent it from happening. But if this"something" never happens from the beginning we find that it was not a real "rescue," and that we rescued something but we lost another good thing at the same time.


Director: Mahmood Soliman

In Arabic with English subtitles.
2006 | 11 mn 30 s | Short Narrative.

FESTIVALS / AWARDS


2008 | 3ème Corto Del Med - Festival de courts-métrages méditerranéens | AVIGNON, France | Jeudi 24 avril- Dimanche 27 avril 2008 | www.altermediterranee.org
* Compétition

2007 - Cinémed (Montpellier, france)
* Selection
Screening: Corum - Salle Einstein Lundi 29 octobre 2007, 20 h 00
Screening: Corum - Salle Einstein Samedi 3 novembre 2007, 14 h 00

Middle East International Film Festival - Abu Dhabi 2007 | ABU DHABI, | www.tribecafilm.com
Red and Blue (Azraa' Wa Ahmar) Directed by Mahmood Soliman | Egypt... Bio: Mahmood Soliman directed two award-winning short films before Red and Blue:...
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Tribeca Film Festival | TRIBECA, | www.tribecafilm.com
* Selection
North American Premiere

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