Boy from heaven

In the center of the new film of the director of "The Incident at the Nile Hilton Hotel" is a fisherman's son with exceptional talents. He unexpectedly receives a state scholarship at the prestigious Al Azhar University in Cairo, where the boundless bookshelves, kept in a thousand-year-old sanctuary of religion and science, open up to the young man who used to read books under the covers at night. However, it soon becomes clear that the corridors of the House of Wisdom are riddled with hypocrisy, political intrigue and conspiracies. Against his will, the boy is drawn into a deadly power game where he is pushed around like a chess piece by a cynical but principled state security agent. Will the mind of an ordinary guy be able to untangle the web of corruption and manipulation that has inseparably entangled two powers - state and religion? Awarded for best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the film will keep the viewer entertained for a moment, and will especially appeal to fans of John le Carré's spy novels and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.