Boy from Heaven CFF

Sweden, France, Finland, 2022, 126 mins.

DIRECTOR: Tarik Saleh

WITH: Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Mehdi Dehbi

Director Talek Saleh takes us on a riveting journey in his latest thriller set in Cairo. From a rural village, fisherman’s son Adam (Tawfeek Barhom) is invited to study at the prestigious Al-Azhar University, a renowned institution for Sunni Muslims. Despite trying to keep focused on his work, the death of the university’s Grand Imam and murder of another student, drags Adam into a fight for power between the various student groups and institute’s leaders, fuelled by government interference. The young man unwittingly becomes a spy for agent Colonel Ibrahim (Fares Fares) and must navigate the moral dilemmas thrown at him and how he feels about his faith, in an effort to survive the crossfire.

The Cambridge Film Festival is presented by the Cambridge Film Trust, a registered charity with a mission to foster film culture and education for the benefit of the public, in Cambridge and the Eastern region but also throughout the UK.

Content warning: Contains scenes of violence