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Ibrahim El Batout Probes Human Organ Trafficking in ‘Cat’ (Exclusive)

14 May 2013 1:00 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Egyptian auteur Ibrahim El Batout (“Winter of Discontent”) will this week start shooting Cairo-set action thriller “The Cat,” about human organ trafficking in Egypt, with Amr Waked (“Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”) producing and attached to star.

“Cat” has a topical hook. Egypt’s recent political upheavals have left a law enforcement gap in the country, allowing mob-led organ-trafficking rings to thrive, according to reports.

Also attached to star is Palestinian Mohammad Bakri (“Private”), Egyptian actress-model Sarah Shaheen, and Salah Al Hanafy, who played the sadistic security officer in El Batout’s “Winter of Discontent,” among Egypt’s first post-revolution pics.

“Discontent” will be sold by Canada’s Double Dutch at the Cannes Market.

Like “Winter,” “Cat” is produced by Waked and Al Hanafy’s Zad, which they launched after the 2011 Tahrir Square uprising to make pics depicting Egypt from new, uncensored angles.

Zad has also inked with Gallic producer »

- Nick Vivarelli

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Ahd: International Star You Should Know

4 May 2013 3:00 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Claim To Fame

Born in Jeddah and trained in New York, Ahd, 32, has been drawing notice internationally for her perf as a hypocritical hardline schoolmistress in

Haifaa al-Mansour’s “Wadjda,” the first feature from Saudi Arabia and a fest item that played at Tribeca before going out Stateside via Sony Classics. As a director, Ahd’s second short “Sanctity” was the first Saudi title to unspool at the recent Berlin Film Festival.

Overcoming Saudi Stigma

Being an actress in the Gulf is even bolder than being a female director. Ahd’s first role was playing a suicide bomber with second thoughts in Turkish helmer Aslihan Unaldi’s 2005 short “Razan,” for which Ahd won the Golden Gate Award for actress at the San Francisco Film Festival. She subsequently studied acting with William Esper in New York. Ahd produced her first short “The Shoemaker,” in which she plays opposite Egyptian star Amr Waked »

- Nick Vivarelli

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