At the cinéma les 3 Luxembourg - 67 rue monsieur le prince 75006 paris
Screening date:06-12-2013 -- 20:30
Though I Know the River is Dry

Caught between his brother's past and his child's future, a Palestinian living in Detroit returns to Palestine. On the fraught road through the country he relives the choice that sent him to America and the forces of history now driving him home. 

Country: Egypt/Palestine
Year: 2013
Production: Louis Lewarne
Director: Omar Robert Hamilton
Editing: Omar Robert Hamilton
Cinematography: Omar Robert Hamilton
Sound: Basel Abbas
Cast: Kais Nashef, Maya Abu Alhayyat, Selwa Nakkara, Hussam Ghosheh
DV – 19'

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biography

Omar Hamilton was born in England, studied literature at Oxford and lives in Cairo. He is an independent filmmaker, producer of the Palestine Festival of Literature, and a founding member of the Mosireen Collective in Cairo. Since 2011, he has made several short documentaries about the Egyptian Revolution, helping make Mosireen the most watched non-profit YouTube channel of all time in Egypt. His latest film, Though I Know the River is Dry, raised its production costs through two successful crowdfunding campaigns.

Filmography

2012 - The People Demand the Fall of the Regime (short)
2011 - The Mosireen Collective (short)
2011 - The Camel Battle (short)
2010 - Maydoum (short)

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