karoline Markos Kamel

“The Lottery” is the autobiography of a middle class Coptic Egyptian family who plan to emigrate to the US by winning a well-known visa lottery. Karoline’s father, Markos, has been playing that lottery for 20 years without success, but he still wants his three children, Michael, Cherry and Karoline, to keep trying. They deal with this syndrome with sarcasm, laughter and intermittent quarrels. They blame their father for creating a constant expectation for a better life while doing nothing to make it happen. Karoline, in her film, presents an intimate portrait of her family and the complexities of their relations as they pursue a dream that would never materialize.