BOY FROM HEAVEN

By Tarik SALEH

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2022
Competition Prix du Scénario
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Crime, Thriller
    • Countries
    • SWEDEN, FINLAND, FRANCE, DENMARK
    • Languages
    • ARABIC
    • Duration
    • 117 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Tarik SALEH
    • Producer(s)
    • Kristina ABERG, Frederik ZANDER
    • Synopsis
    • Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival in Cairo, the institution’s religious leader, the Grand Imam, suddenly dies and Adam soon becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite.