Poisonous Roses

Egypt

Producers: Mahmoud Hemaida

Production Company: Albatrik Art Production

Project Logline:

Four stories, told out of chronological order like Arabian Nights, complement each other like a puzzle to reveal the circumstances that lead Sakr Abdel-Wahed to commit suicide. Starting from the story of a blind woman, whom the corrupt police try to force into working with them in drug dealing, this multi-threaded narrative contains several small stories that overlap through the relationships between the characters.

Fawzi Saleh is a screenwriter, filmmaker and human rights activist. He has a degree in screenwriting from the Cairo Film Institute and a degree in history from Suez Canal University. He contributed to many documentary films as a researcher and co-wrote and worked as an assistant director in film and TV. In 2006 he directed the experimental short Mocha,and in 2010 made his feature documentary debut, Living Skin.