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''Sheikh Jackson'' is a 2017 Egyptian
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Amr Salama Amr Salama ( ar, عمرو سلامة; born 22 November 1982) is an Egyptians, Egyptian film director, blogger, screenwriter, and author. Film career Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, he later moved with his family back to Egypt. He began his direc ...
. It was screened in the Special Presentations section at the
2017 Toronto International Film Festival The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 7 to 17 September 2017. There were fourteen programmes, with the Vanguard and City to City programmes both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down b ...
. It was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the
90th Academy Awards The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best 2017 in film, films of 2017, and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Californi ...
, but it was not nominated.


Plot

An Islamic cleric who likes to dress as
Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Over a ...
is thrown into a tailspin in the wake of the singer's
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.


Cast

* Ahmed El-Fishawy * Maged El Kedwany *Ahmed Malek *Salma Abudeif *
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* Dorra


Controversy

In December 2017 in Egypt the film was referred to
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for investigation of blasphemy, despite it having been cleared by Egypt's censorship committee. When film critic Tarek El-Shenawy defended the film, many
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readers responded with angry insults against him and the film.


See also

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List of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award ...
*
List of Egyptian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Egypt has submitted films for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1958, when Youssef Chahine's ''Cairo Station'' became both the first African and the first Arab film to contend for the award. The Foreign ...


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sheikh Jackson 2017 films 2017 drama films Egyptian drama films 2010s Arabic-language films Cultural depictions of Michael Jackson