Ithaki
A film by Ibrahim El Batout
You are cordially invited to the screening of ?Ithaki? August 8 ? 14, at 8
PM.
Center of Creativity, Opera House, Cairo (near Hanager Theater)
(Subtitles on the 13 and 14)
Free Entrance
It is an independant movie that won the annual award of the French Cultural
Center festival for best independant movie in April 2005, and is going to be
screened in a Festival in Moscow this September.
Below director Biofilmography.
Ibrahim El Batout
BIOFILMOGRAPHY
Ibrahim El Batout was born in Port Said, Egypt in 1963. In 1985 he received
a B.Sc. in
Physics from the American University in Cairo. Since 1987 El Batout has
worked as a
cameraman capturing stories mainly about human loss, suffering, and
displacement for
various TV channels including ZDF (Germany), TBS (Japan), and ARTE (France).
In the
beginning of 2004, after covering twelve wars, El Batout decided to suspend
his
documentary-making career and step into the world of fiction films. ?Ithaki?
is the director?s
first feature film.
-Awards & Prizes
2003 Rory Peck ? Sony International Impact Award (United Kingdom)
2000 Axel Springer Award (Germany)
1996 ECHO (European Union)
1994 Axel Springer Award (Germany)
1991 Honorary Award TBS (Japan)
-Selected Filmography ? Director of Photography
2004 Baghdad (ZDF)
2003 Mass Graves in Iraq (ZDF)
2002 Drug Addiction in Kuwait (ZDF)
2002 Pilgrimage to Mecca (ZDF)
2001 The River that Connect Future EC Countries (ZDF)
2001 Three German Women Living in Gaza (WDR Germany)
2000 A Day of An Ambulance Driver in Ramalla, Palestine (ZDF)
1999 Nagib Mahfouz: Passage du siecle (ARTE)
1999 The War in Kosovo (ZDF)
1998 Start of the War in Kosovo (ZDF)
1996 Slavery in Southern Sudan (ZDF)
1996 Taliban War Against El Mazar El Sharif (ZDF)
1995 The Victim of a War that Ended - Bosnia (ARTE)
1995 The Fall of Mubuto Sisisico of Zaire (ZDF)
1994 The War in Chechnya (ZDF)
1994 Massacres in Rwanda (ZDF)
1994 Female Circumcision in Ethiopia (ZDF)
1994 The Divided City of Mostar (ARTE)
1992 The Fall of the Communist Regime in Afghanistan (ABC)
1992 The Last Days of the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) Camp in Lebanon (CBS)
1992 The War in Somalia (ABC)
1992 The Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka (Channel 4 UK)
1991 Among the First Three TV Crews to Enter Liberated Kuwait (TBS Japan)
1991 Kurdish Refugees in the Turkish and Iranian Mountains (TVAM UK)
1988 The War in East Beirut (ITN UK)
1988 Czhachescow Fall down in Romania (NTV Japan)
1988 The Fall of the Iranian Plane Hit by an American Missile (NHK Japan)
1987 Iran-Iraq War (NHK Japan)