A Promise to the Sea

Director: Hend Sohail
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Set to world premiere at the Cairo International Film Festival
Explores an extraordinary mother-son relationship and how some people may react differently to the death of a loved one
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2023/ Egypt, Sweden14 min/ Short, Drama
Original Title
Amanet Al Bahr
SYNOPSIS
After irrationally deciding to steal his mother’s corpse during the funeral preparations, Zain recklessly drives far from his humble hometown and hits the highway, where he encounters a situation that will change his life forever.
CAST
Nabil Botros Talaan
Emad Yaakoub Riyad
Gerges Laban Aazwza
Osama Taha

CREW

Scriptwriters: Hend Sohail and Omar Zinhom
DOP: Mostafa Elkashef
Editor: Samir Radwan

Producer(s)

Nourhan Yasser

film festivals
Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt