Date Wine

Date Wine — Plot

Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.

• Release date
• June 23, 1999
• Runtime
• 108 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Radwan El Kashef

Date Wine — Cast

Sherihan Salma Abla Kamel Salima Mohamed Nagaty Ahmed Mustafa Ismail Manal Afifi Shifa Hamdy Ahmed Mute Grandpa Fayza Amasaib Grandma Zen Gamal Ismail Mohammed Ismail Seif Abdelrahman Salem