My Brother the Devil

My Brother the Devil

Director 

-Sally El Hosaini

Producer 

-Julia Godzinskaya

-Gayle Griffiths

-Michael Sackle

Stars

-James Floyd

-Fady Elsayed

-Saïd Taghmaoui

Cinema

-Empire - Leicester Square

-Ritzy Cinema

-Genesis Cinema

-Hackney Picturehouse

-Peckham Multiplex

-Cineworld - Wandsworth

-Cineworld - West India Quay

-Cineworld - Enfield 

-ODEON Wimbledon

-ODEON Greenwich

-ODEON Lee Valley

-ODEON Kingston Upon Thames

-Showcase Cinemas Newham

-Showcase Cinemas Bluewater

Awards

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Awards + Critic Reception

the film has recieved numerous International Film Festival awards in 2012 including:
- Best European Film (Europa Cinemas Label Award) at Berlinale
- Best Cinematography at Sundance Film Festival
- Best Newcomer - Sally El Hosaini at BFI London Film Festival
- Best Actor - James Floyd at Milan Film Festival
- CBA Worldview Sundance Impact Award at Sundance London
- Grand Jury Award at Outfest

- Nominated Grad Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival
- Nominated Sutherland Trophy (Best First Film) at BFI London Film Festival
- Nominated Best Newcomer - Fady Elsayed at BFI London Film Festival
- Honorable Mention Outstanding First Feature at Frameline Film Festival

Other Pending Awards include:
- BIFA Nominated Douglas Hickox award for Best Debut Film - Sally El Hosaini
- BIFA Nominated Best Newcomer - James Floyd



It has been critically acclaimed with rave reviews, including:

- The Hollywood Reporter called it " A crackling debut . . . Slick, Muscular, Entertaining and Emotionally satisfying."
- Empire named it " A compelling gngland saga . . . crisp, cool and consistently street-smart."
- Variety wrote "An energetic and imaginative tale . . . a film that so artfully refuses to surrender to convention."
- The Independent praised it as "gritty and gripping"
- The Daily Telegraphy called it their "favourite narrative feature" at Sundance
- Total Film gave it film of the day and placed it in its Top 3 Films at Sundance
- Screen International named it "a luminous event"

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My Brother the Devil: Interviews

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my brother the devil interview - director Sally El Hosaini

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The cast of my brother the devil





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My Brother the Devil: London Film Festival Review

This year’s London Film Festival saw Best British Newcomer go to Sally El Hosaini for her confident debut feature, My Brother The Devil. Already garlanded with prizes at Sundance and Outfest, her Hackney-set story of East London gangsters marks the arrival of a major talent.

The son of Egyptian immigrants, 14-year-old Mo (Fady Elsayed) idolises his older brother, Rashid (James Floyd), whose small-time drug dealing for a local gang provides a surreptitious form of income that’s quietly slipped into their mother’s purse without being spoken of. When one of Rashid’s closest friends is killed by a rival gang, and his friends begin to show an interest in initiating Mo into the group, events take a downward turn. As Mo is drawn into a way of life that might be impossible to turn back from, Rashid has other avenues open up for him, namely a job with a Muslim photographer, Said.

British filmmaking has a long-standing relationship with films about London gangsters, but Hosaini, who also wrote the screenplay, isn’t interested in genre conventions. Instead of privileging supposed gritty content and subject matter, she allows ambiguities and tensions of both race and sexuality to protrude into what would be, in less capable hands, a more straightforward cautionary tale. The decision to film as much in the sunlight as during the night means that Hackney has seldom looked more beautiful, and her depiction of life on an East London housing estate neither condescends to its audience nor those people the film depicts. Hosaini is ably assisted by the naturalistic performances she coaxes from her young cast, especially James Floyd, who masters a tricky role with the dexterity of a seasoned pro. A real gem of a film.

http://londonist.com/2012/10/london-film-festival-review-my-brother-the-devil.php

My Brother the Devil - IMDb

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My Brother the Devil on IMDb

My Brother the Devil - Official Trailer

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My Brother the Devil's Official Trailer

Review of My Brother the Devil

By Simon Kinnear (Total Film)

http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/my-brother-the-devil

La Haine has been ram-raided by urban Brit flicks for so long it’s apt to finally see one of the French film’s stars, Saïd Taghmaoui, in the East London ’hood.

Yet it’s a mark of writer/director Sally El Hosaini’s ambition that Taghmaoui isn’t criminal or terrorist here but something more radical: a nice guy.

The only British film in competition at Sundance Festival 2012 - a winner, for its lyrical cinematography - El Hosaini’s debut follows two first generation Anglo-Egyptian siblings.

Rash (James Floyd) is the respected dealer whose ambivalence about his lifestyle leads him to Taghmaoui’s ex-gangster; Mo (Fady Elsayed) is the student who’d prefer to follow in his bro’s designer shoes.

What distinguishes My Brother The Devil is El Hosaini’s maturity in avoiding faux-doc grittiness, political grandstanding or flashy glorification in favour of an intimate, closely observed character piece.

The languid first half emphasises the brothers’ environment over plot beats; for all the inevitable knife fights and drug deals, it’s the quieter moments that register, and Floyd and Elsayed respond with affecting performances.

El Hosaini captures everything in a swooning, summery style that gives no hint she was shooting while riots ripped apart the capital last August.

And then El Hosaini detonates a bombshell that proves both the film’s masterstroke and very nearly its downfall.

It’s a twist that subverts genre bravado by focusing on issues seldom (read: never) touched on in the ’hood: when Mo warns of “terror shit” going down, it’s a deliberate attempt to hide more uncomfortable truths.

The trouble is that, while the story El Hosaini has chosen is new to these mean streets, it’s still as old as the hills. The subtle world-building is threatened by a dose of conventional melodrama.

All the same, the bold change of direction seals the film’s credentials as a laudable antidote to urban clichés.

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