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THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT
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Completed - ARABIC - Thriller - 106 minutes

Year of production : 2016

Director(s) : Tarik SALEH

Synopsis

Cairo police detective Noredin Mustafa is an ordinary corrupt cop. He’s handed the case of a singer found murdered in a Nile Hilton hotel room and soon discovers the dead woman’s secret relationship with the hotel owner—a wealthy developer and member of parliament. While searching for the only witness, an undocumented Sudanese maid, he’s abruptly ordered to close the case. But Noredin continues, and the investigation leads to an “untouchable” elite who runs the country, immune from justice.

Tarik Saleh’s (Metropia) third feature is a riveting Egypt-inflected noir with the requisite corruption, cynicism, smoking, and forsaken city, where everyone wants their cut. Set on the eve of Egypt’s 2011 uprising, it shrewdly twists the genre to examine political power, decadence, and life on the margins. Its unlikely hero, Noredin, is a hard-drinking, divorced loner who lives off dirty money. But as his father says, “You can’t buy dignity.” Can a corrupt cop mete out justice? Ultimately, Noredin’s moral struggle is overtaken by history. Where in noir corruption breeds corruption, here it breeds revolution.

Production

Country(ies) : SWEDEN, GERMANY, DENMARK

ARGENTINA MIRADA DISTRIBU
BULGARIA SOFIA INTERNATI
FRANCE Jul 05, 2017 MEMENTO FILMS D
GERMANY Oct 05, 2017 PORT-AU-PRINCE
HUNGARY Sep 21, 2017 CIRKO FILM KFT.
ICELAND HEIMILI KVIKMYN
IRELAND ACCESS CINEMA
ITALY MOVIES INSPIRED
LEBANON MOVING TURTLE
LITHUANIA A-ONE FILMS BAL
NETHERLAND Aug 24, 2017 CHERRY PICKERS
POLAND AURORA FILMS (P
TUNISIA HAKKA DISTRIBUT
UNITED KIN NEW WAVE FILMS
USA STRAND RELEASIN

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Festivals and Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2017 - World Dramatic (Grand Jury Prize)
Karlovy Vary IFF 2017 Horizons


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