| Sweden's Oscar contribution | Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident) is back with a political thriller starring Fares Fares in one of the key roles.

The fisherman boy Adam is offered the almost unattainable opportunity to study at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the absolute power center of the Sunni Muslims in the world. Shortly after his arrival in Cairo, the head of the university, Sheik Al-Azhar, dies suddenly and Adam is thrown involuntarily into a brutal power struggle between the religious and political elite of today's Egypt.