Black February

Hassan teaches at a university. His brother Tarek is a chemist who ends up working at a pickle factory. Neither of their lives is going the way they wanted. Then something happens to them and the situation tightens further. After that they weigh two options. The first is to take their families and leave the country. The second is to marry their children into wealthy families. The film looks at Egypt after the revolution and does it through dark comedy. What it asks is this: why can two educated men not hold on in their own country. The account builds its satire through a single family. Khaled Saleh and Tarek Abdelaziz appear in Mohamed Amin’s Egyptian film of 2013, a hundred and sixteen minutes long.