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Take Me (Ghaeir Khodoni) by Tamer el-Said. Egypt/UAE, 2004, 53 min, VHS US première Borrowing its title from a famous song of leftist activists, Take Me is a powerful story of an undefeatable will to survive: for one's country, for one's family, and to tell the story of one's life. The film revisits the harrowing memories of a group of Morrocan men who as young activists were ”kidnapped,” tortured, and held in isolation without explanation or a trial. Through the grim subject matter the bonds of friendship they formed through shared experience and their hope for a more just Morocco rise to the surface. In Arabic with English subtitles.
Sat, Nov 5, 1:30,
Silver Center, NYU, 100 Washington Square East |
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Cast and Crew: Writer: Assaad Taha |
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Filmmaker Bio: Tamer El-Said was born in Cairo, Egypt in August 1972. He studied journalism at Cairo University and Film at the High Cinema Institute at Giza. He then worked as assistant director on several feature films and has made a number of short films and documentaries, including: On a Monday (2004), Music of the Nets (2000), Crisscross (1998), Like a Feather (1996), Charlie (1995) and 18 September (1994). |
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Print Source: Tamer el-Said |
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