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 a religion often viewed with prejudice and reduced to simplistic clichés.
Cast
Aya El-Hosseiny Sonia Hassan Maher Al-Sharnouby Magda HabsheyCrew
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):
Hassala Films
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
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
Special mention at Jean Rouch International Film Festival
