Boy from Heaven

Premiered in competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the award for best screenplay, this is a bold and sharp spy thriller, with political and religious overtones, whose narrative unfolds in a dizzying way on an Egyptian campus. Through Adam, the son of a fisherman who is given the opportunity to study at the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo, director Tarik Saleh, who since The Incident at the Nile Hilton has accustomed us to intense choreographies of tension and action, builds a powerful and labyrinthine political saga that exposes the official corruption in Egypt that triggered the Tahrir Square uprising.