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The Nile Hilton Incident

Fikra was through Atmo involved in Tarek Saleh's acclaimed political thriller the "Nile Hilton Incident", winner of the Sundance Film Festival 2015 and Swedish Best Film at the Guldbagge Award 2017.

Plot summary: The film is inspired by a true event: the 2008 murder at a hotel in Dubai of the Lebanese winner of an Egyptian pop idol-type show. An Egyptian businessman and politician who was dumped by the star turned out to be behind the crime, which shook the whole of Egypt.