watch TrailerLight upon Light
a film by
Christian Suhr
78 min /
Documentary
Egypt, Denmark
One day, an Egyptian friend gave Danish anthropologist Christian Suhr a good piece of advice: "Stop focusing on all the darkness in the world and look at the light instead."
Suhr takes us on a journey to Cairo along the Nile and into the desert to understand what light means to the people he meets along the way.
Through conversations and observations of breathtaking rituals, the light slowly breaks through and nuances the image of religion often viewed with prejudice and reduced to simplistic clichés.
Cast
- Aya El-Hosseiny
- Sonia Hassan
- Maher Al-Sharnouby
- Magda Habshey
Crew
- Screenwriter: Muhammad Mustapha and Christian Suhr
- DOP: Christian Suhr, Amira Mortada, and Muhammad Mustapha
- Editor: Muhammad Mustapha and Christian Suhr
Original Title: Nour Ala Nour
Production Company(ies):
Producer(s):
Production Company(ies):
Hassala Films
Producer(s):
Hala Lotfy
- Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) (Nordic Competition), Denmark
- Cairo International Film Festival (International Critics’ Week), Egypt
- Ethnofest - Athens Ethnographic Film Festival (opening film), Greece
- Etnokino Bern, Switzerland
- Amsterdam Ethnographic Film Day, Netherlands
- Practices, Aesthetics and Entanglements Conference, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, Sweden
- Arabian Nights Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark
- The Mariam Mosque, Denmark
- Danish School of Media and Journalism, Denmark
- European Film College, Denmark
- Jean Rouch International Film Festival (Immersive Filmmaking Competition), France
- International Documentary Film Festival Vienna (Main Program), Austria
- Freiburger Filmforum, Germany
- International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec, Canada
- Mind & Life Europe, Italy
- NAFA Film Festival, Denmark
- American Academy of Religion, US
- Tripoli Film Festival, Lebanon
Special mention at Jean Rouch International Film Festival
