Everywhere the light

Genre: Drama

Langage: French, english, arabic

Sous-titres: French, english, arabic

Format: HD

Sound: 5.1.

Duration: 28′

Countries: Belgium, France

Year: 2014

International sales : Hors du bocal

SYNOPSIS

Aurian, a 27-year-old Belgian, lives the life of a privileged expatriate in the mythical city of Cairo. His destiny catches up with him when he finally has a mystical encounter with his Sufi neighbour, who lives on the roof of his building. What if Aurian started to look at the world and the people around him differently?

CREDITS

Director : Pauline Beugnies

Script : Pauline Beugnies, Mathieu Michel

DOP : Tristan Galand

Sound : Edith Herreods, Mohad Ezz

Costume designer :  Reem El Adl

Editor : Léo Parmentier

Sound Editor : Lise Bouchez

Mixer : Jean-François Levillain

Casting: Léopold Terlinden, Sheikh Mohsen Allam, Amina El Banna, Riad Gahmi

DIRECTOR

Pauline Beugnies (1982) is an author, photographer, and filmmaker from Charleroi, Belgium. She lived in Cairo for five years, where she learned Arabic. Now based in Brussels, she maintains a strong connection with Egypt. For a decade, she documented the emancipation of Egyptian youth through various mediums: photo exhibitions, a web documentary Sout El Shabab (The Voice of the Youth) for France Culture in 2012, the photo book Génération Tahrir in 2016, and her first feature-length documentary, Rester Vivants. The film premiered internationally at the Dok Leipzig Festival in 2017, received the SCAM 2017 Audiovisual Documentary Award, and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Magritte Awards in 2018. Her photography has also been widely recognised; notably, in 2013, she won the Nikon Press Photo Award for her series Battir, l’intifada Verte.

In 2020, Pauline debuted her first fiction work, Shams, a short film shot in Cairo. The film was awarded prizes at the Brussels Short Film Festival, Mix Milano, Thessaloniki’s International Short Film Festival, and Cambria in California. In 2021, her second documentary, SHIFT, was released, telling the story of a former platform economy courier. More recently, Pauline contributed to the creation of a theatrical work titled Mawda, ça veut dire tendresse, based on the story of Mawda, a two-year-old Kurdish girl killed by a Belgian police officer. In 2022, her latest feature-length documentary, Petites, which revisits the trauma of the Dutroux case for the children of that era, had its world premiere in international competition at Hot Docs. Pauline is currently working on the script for her first fiction feature film, C’est tout ce qu’on aura.