International Competition · 47th Edition
Al Baraneya
Director
Ashgan El-Hamus
Country
Egypt, Netherlands, Belgium, Saudi Arabia
Runtime
1 h 24 min
Language
Arabic
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
Amal, who is pregnant, lives with her family in Al Baraneya, a village on the outskirts of Cairo surrounded by jasmine fields. Their chaotic yet affectionate family life is disrupted when a landowner offers to buy their property. As pressure to sell mounts, tensions divide the family and fuel growing mistrust.
Cast
Reem Amer, Fatma Ibrahim El-Hamus, Nadia Ahmed El-Hadary, Asmaa Ahmed El-Hadary, Farida Alsayed El-Hamus, Fatma Farahat El-Hadary, Sara Ali El-Hadary, Alsayed Mohamed El-Hamus, Safaa Ahmed Kobak, Yehia Saad El-Hamus, Salma Khattab, Mostafa Noureldin
Screenplay
Ashgan El-Hamus, Roelof Jan Minneboo
Producers
Frank Hoeve, Kesmat Elsayed, Eurydice Gysel
About the Director
During her studies at the Netherlands Film Academy, she wrote the short films Beerenburgh and Flynn. She graduated in 2017 with her thesis film Aimée and went on to work on the series Skam NL. In 2020, her short film Birdland won the Grand Prix at the Brest Film Festival. She also wrote and directed an episode of the television series Onze Straat.
Screenings