Excuse My French

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Synopsis:
When a Christian boy transfers to a public school after his family’s finances suddenly plummet, he realizes he would be better served by claiming to be a Muslim. The events surrounding this provocative plot prove unsettling, insightful, and at times, hilariously ridiculous. Director Amr Salam’s screenplay for the film survived four rejections by the Egyptian censor of three successive governments before the final cut was approved for filming. The result is a heartwarming tale of a boy’s trial with an outrageous sense of humor.

2014
99 minutes
Narrative feature
Directed by: Amr Salama
Language: Arabic
Country: Egypt
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“Excuse My French is a charming movie, that much can be said. Salama shoots the movie beautifully and its edited snappily so that it zips and zaps with great fluidity in the early goings. He uses narration to set up the characters, background and plot and the design has just the right level of quirk that Excuse My French never becomes irksome or irritating.” (link)

Festivals and Awards:
-BFI London Film Festival
-Luxor Egyptian and European Festival

Filmmaker bio (from filmmaker’s website):
Amr Salama has directed three feature films, On A Day Like Today (2008), Asmaa (2011), and Excuse my French (2014), and he co-directed the documentary Tahrir 2011: the Good, the Bad & the Politician. A blogger and active writer, Salama has written two books, A Kiosk Guy: A Journey in Search of the Handlebars and Return to Sender: Short Stories, Sort Of as well as articles published in several newspapers and magazines.