“A rather ordinary day” wins the gold medal in the Alexandria Film Festival

Damascus (ST): The short film “A Rather Ordinary Day”,  produced by the General Film Organization, has  won the golden prize of the Alexandria Short Film Festival in its seventh session, which announced its results today.

The film, written and directed by Anas Zawahiri and produced as part of the Youth Cinema Support Project for 2019, is an attempt to depict the details of the Syrian social environment and learn about its different classes by monitoring stories that take place within an area not exceeding the journey of a taxi driver wandering around the city streets.

The film, which won the first prize at the Youth and Short Film Festival last year, starred “Hammam Reda, Tamadur Ghanem, Alyana Saad Mohammad, Wahid Qazak, Salim Sabbagh, Fouad Al-Ali, Mohammad Khattab and Zain Khouzam.

The silver prize at the festival went to the Egyptian film “Tok Tok.

K.Q.