It is a short film directed by a 20 year old woman named Sarah Rozak. It’s an Egyptian film. It won an award at the Luxor Egyptian & European Film festival. Duration of the film is four minutes.
It revolves around a poor boy wearing broken & irreparable slipper. Maybe an orphan, he looks around & happens to see a rich boy wearing glistening black shoes. He stares at them & then at his own slippers.
The train arrives. The rich boy enters the train with his father but loses one of his shoes in the crowd. The poor boy rushes to the shoe. He picks it up & runs to the rich boy standing at the doorstep of the departing train, reaching out for the shoe.
Train gains speed & the poor boy cannot reach. He flings the shoe towards the rich boy.But the boy fails to reach it. Then, the rich boy removes his remaining shoe & throws it towards the poor boy, smiling at him.
The film’s ending credit state that it is’ based on Gandhi’s life ‘. While riding a train, Gandhi lost his shoes. He took off the other shoe & left it on the train before getting off barefoot, sso that the person who would find the pair of shoes could wear them.
In the film, Rozik has beautifully rendered Gandhi’s episode into a deeply moving piece of art.
It reminds one of the Iranian movie ‘Children of Heaven’ made in 1997 by Majid Majidi. After a brother loses his sister’s pair of shoes, he goes on on a series of adventure.It was nominated for the Academy award for best foreign film in 1998.
A real tear jerker.
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