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Egypt, summer 1967. As war looms, Ahmed — a young man from a humble Cairo family — receives a letter from Austria. Liz has replied to his search for a pen pal. From that moment, their long-distance friendship becomes the thread that pulls Ahmed toward an unlikely dream: becoming a concert pianist. Together they live through war, family upheaval, and the tectonic shifts that rocked Egypt from Nasser to the 1980s. The Stories is a chronicle of ordinary people navigating history they never asked for.
Source: Press kit
RT: 101 mins.
Director: ABU BAKR SHAWKY
Egypt, summer 1967. As war looms, Ahmed — a young man from a humble Cairo family — receives a letter from Austria. Liz has replied to his search for a pen pal. From that moment, their long-distance friendship becomes the thread that pulls Ahmed toward an unlikely dream: becoming a concert pianist. Together they live through war, family upheaval, and the tectonic shifts that rocked Egypt from Nasser to the 1980s. The Stories is a chronicle of ordinary people navigating history they never asked for.
Source: Press kit
RT: 101 mins.
Director: ABU BAKR SHAWKY