DIRECTOR: Hani Khalifa
STARRING: Mona Zaki, Mohamed Mamdouh, Mohamed Farag
RUNNING TIME: 1 hr 43 minutes
LANGUAGE: Arabic
A few days before she travels to Mecca to perform Hajj, Ghada faces an emergency which forces her to reach out to people from her tainted past with whom she had cut off contact in order to collect a large sum of money. So, as she collects the money, will she manage to go to Mecca, or get tangled up in the past's webs?
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Flight 404 is the latest film from director Hani Khalifa. The film had its worldwide debut in Egypt on January 25. Flight 404 has scored more than 450,000 admissions across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, breaking Egyptian box office records for a female-led film and proceeding to top box office charts in Saudi for four consecutive weeks, according to distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment. The film also won the Special Jury Award (Tutankhamun’s Silver Mask), and the Best Actress Award for Mona Zaki at the 13th edition of the Luxor African Film Festival. It was nominated in four categories for the 2024 Septimius Awards: Best Soundtrack, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best African Film.
The film selection committee released a statement announcing the news on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Screen Actors Guild, expressing that choosing a movie to represent Egypt in the Oscars wasn't easy because commercial movies are dominating the cinematic production in Egypt.
The film is produced by Mohamed Hefzy and Shahinaz Al-Akkad through their production companies Film Clinic and Lagoonie Film Production, in co-production with Saudi Arabia’s Pictures Entertainment Group and Hi Media Production.
Flight 404 is a thriller drama and it was filmed in Cairo, Egypt.
To check out all previous submissions for Egypt, click HERE.
STARRING: Mona Zaki, Mohamed Mamdouh, Mohamed Farag
RUNNING TIME: 1 hr 43 minutes
LANGUAGE: Arabic
A few days before she travels to Mecca to perform Hajj, Ghada faces an emergency which forces her to reach out to people from her tainted past with whom she had cut off contact in order to collect a large sum of money. So, as she collects the money, will she manage to go to Mecca, or get tangled up in the past's webs?
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Flight 404 is the latest film from director Hani Khalifa. The film had its worldwide debut in Egypt on January 25. Flight 404 has scored more than 450,000 admissions across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, breaking Egyptian box office records for a female-led film and proceeding to top box office charts in Saudi for four consecutive weeks, according to distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment. The film also won the Special Jury Award (Tutankhamun’s Silver Mask), and the Best Actress Award for Mona Zaki at the 13th edition of the Luxor African Film Festival. It was nominated in four categories for the 2024 Septimius Awards: Best Soundtrack, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best African Film.
The film selection committee released a statement announcing the news on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Screen Actors Guild, expressing that choosing a movie to represent Egypt in the Oscars wasn't easy because commercial movies are dominating the cinematic production in Egypt.
The film is produced by Mohamed Hefzy and Shahinaz Al-Akkad through their production companies Film Clinic and Lagoonie Film Production, in co-production with Saudi Arabia’s Pictures Entertainment Group and Hi Media Production.
Flight 404 is a thriller drama and it was filmed in Cairo, Egypt.
To check out all previous submissions for Egypt, click HERE.
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