Story
Living with a sentence of death: a boy grows up with a curse and is treated in his village like a leper. Shortly after his birth, Muzamil and his parents are confronted with a fateful prophecy: an Islamic dervish foretells that the boy will die at 20. The father then leaves the family. Muzamil is brought up by his mother, who cares for but also overprotects the boy. The villagers avoid the cursed child, also because they see no point in having a relationship with someone who’s going to die soon anyway. Then Muzamil turns 19.
Director
AMJAD ABU ALALA (*1980) has Sudanese roots and studied media in the United Arab Emirates. He made several shorts that were shown at international festivals. You Will Die at Twenty is his debut feature and was to a great extent financed by European sources.Info
You Will Die at Twenty
Fiction Feature
Arabic
Freihafen//FF2019
Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar
2019
103 min
OV with German subtitles
Amjad Abu Alala
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Arnaud Dommerc, Hossam Elouan, Ingrid Lill Høgtun, Michael Henrichs
Sébastien Goepfert
Hiba Osman
Amine Bouhafa
Rasha Fares
Pyramide International
Andolfi; Transit Films; Duofilm; Die Gesellschaft DGS; Station Films; Film Clinic
Michael Henrichs, Die Gesellschaft DGS: m.henrichs@die-gesellschaft.net