My Brother the Devil
- Director: Sally El Hosaini
- Writer: Sally El Hosaini; Aymen Hamdouchi
- Producer: Michael S. Constable; Sally El Hosaini
CGiii Comment
The cinematography - by David Raedeker - is truly impressive...it heightens every second of this deeply personal film.
With two stand-out central performances, Sally El Hosaini's debut has deservedly garnered a multitude of awards.
She is testament to the faith and dedication filmmakers need to have for their work...it took 6 years, of door-knocking and re-writes...and, with the help of Sundance, My Brother The Devil came to be.
Multicultural gangs, a Hackney housing estate and boys-trying-to-be-men, ingredients that have made many an urban youth film creak at the seams...Hosaini remains stridently, and thankfully, unsentimental...
A fine debut indeed - with the star of the show being the cinematography.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Mo is a young boy growing up in a traditional Egyptian household, but beyond the front door of the family's modest London flat is a completely different world - the streets of Hackney. The impressionable Mo idolizes his handsome older brother Rashid and wants to follow is his footsteps. However, Rashid, a charismatic and shrewd member of a local gang, wants a different life for his little brother and deals drugs hoping to put Mo through college. One eventful summer, Rashid's sexual awakening forces Mo to confront his own fears and phobias and threatens to tear the brothers apart.
Cast & Characters
James Floyd as Rashid;
Fady Elsayed as Mo;
Said Taghmaoui as Sayyid;
Sylvia Aman as Junkie Mum;
Denzel Assiamah as Bobo;
Simona Brown-Zivkovska as Schoolgirl;
McKell Celaschi-David as Demon's Boy;
Elarica Gallacher as Vanessa;
Amira Ghazalla as Hanan;
Savannah Gordon-Liburd as Hackney Girl