Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning police thriller set in the grimy backstreets of Cairo against the backdrop of Egypt's 2011 revolution.
"Cairo...
Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning police thriller set in the grimy backstreets of Cairo against the backdrop of Egypt's 2011 revolution.
"Cairo police detective Noredin Mustafa is an ordinary corrupt cop. He’s handed the case of a singer found murdered in a Nile Hilton hotel room and soon discovers the dead woman’s secret relationship with the hotel owner - a wealthy developer and member of parliament. While searching for the only witness, an undocumented Sudanese maid, he’s abruptly ordered to close the case. But Noredin continues, and the investigation leads to an “untouchable” elite who runs the country, immune from justice." (Sundance Film Festival)
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91 %55 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
62 %320 reviewsAudience score rating
"A paranoid portrait of individual and systemic corruption that leaves none of its characters unscarred."
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Variety
Variety"This draws on vintage European and Stateside models in its take on systemic police corruption and its moody noirish feel."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"The Nile Hilton Incident represents the type of penetrating filmmaking that only a writer-director intimately familiar with Egyptian culture but possessing an outsider's perspective could convincingly accomplish."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"It's lugubrious without being stylish, and hard-edged without ever landing a punch."
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ColliderThe Nile Hilton Incident | Details
Award winner- Winner of the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema - Dramatic), 2017 Sundance Film Festival
- Runtime
- 106
- Genre
- Thriller
- Country of origin
- Sweden, Denmark, Germany
