CASANOVA

As Hisham proceeds with the decision to end his engagement via a voice message, he is surprised by the arrival of a package looking like gift delivered by a delivery guy sent from his fiancée, Dalia. He gets angry immediately and laments his misfortune at the arrival of that gift before sending the intended voice message, and thus gets emotionally involved in continuing the relationship and blames the delivery man, who offers to help him find a way out to end the relationship, but after he relieves himself so that he can think. With the delivery guy taking so long in the bathroom, Hisham's anger began to escalate as he was in hurry to find a way, and he ordered the guy to leave with the gift, but he decides to open the package the moment the as the delivery guy was leaving. And to his shock the package was nothing but the engagement ring and thus his fiancée was the one who decided to end the engagement. Confusion becomes palpable, and the delivery guy could feel Hisham's remaining feelings of love towards his fiancée and tries to advise him according to his own experience in dealing with women. Hisham succeeds in repairing his relationship with his fiancée through a text message by adhering to the guy’s advice. And as soon as the delivery guy left the office, it became clear through a phone call to his aunt's daughter, who turns out to be Hisham's fiancée, that the whole story was planned to fix their relationship through a trick.

  • ALI ASHRAF
    Director
  • ALI ASHRAF
    Writer
  • Arab Film Tv School
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 42 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    Egypt
  • Country of Filming:
    Egypt
  • Language:
    Arabic
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Arab film tv school
Director Biography - ALI ASHRAF

Ali Ashraf Ali Gamal El-Deen is an Egyptian screenwriter and director. He was born on Aug 20, 1991 in Mansoura, Egypt and currently based in Cairo. He studied mechanical engineering and currently he is a senior mechanical engineer in the oil and gas sector. Since he had more time during the pandemic in 2020, he decided to follow his passion and studied cinema in the Arab Film TV School affiliated to the Cultural Development Fund of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.

Although his study field and career were and still in a very serious and tough domain, he was always passionate about creating written and visual content. During school years he was an active member in school theater team. But during university he became more interested in writing and creating content more than performing, and began writing sketches which gradually developed into writing scripts. He, regularly, attends many artistic performances, ceremonies and events such as: CIFF, CIWFF, Egyptian Nation Theatre Festival, Faten Hamama Festival and GFF which helps him grow his talent through watching and reviewing what he sees.

Generally, he's very passionate about what he's doing, but he hsas, also, a “can-do “attitude. Besides, he's really looking forward to the point where he can take his passion for writing to a professional level as it's his real passion that he tried to develop and grow through the years. He's a highly motivated person who can, also motivate others and constantly looking to improve and gain new experiences. Working in the engineering field and his love for volunteering and charity work helped him gain excellent interpersonal and communication skills with other people around. It also helped him recognize the diverse natures of people around him which is a great help in his writing.

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