The film is centered on life in Cairo's tannery district.
as its submission for the best international feature film category at the 2020 Oscars., the film is centered on two siblings, Taheya and Sacr, who live with their mother in Cairo's environmentally unsafe and impoverished tannery district.
In a strange relationship between sister and brother, overprotective Taheya makes Sacr stay at home while she earns a living by cleaning public toilets.premiered at last year's Rotterdam International Film Festival and went on to be screened at a number of other international fests, including the The film is Saleh's feature debut.
Egypt has entered movies in the best international feature Oscar race since 1958. However, none of the country's submissions has collected a nomination or statuette so far.
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