You Will Die At Twenty
Sudan’s Official Submission to the Academy Awards, 2021
Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is visually sumptuous “coming-of-death” fable. During her son’s naming ceremony, a Sheikh predicts that Sakina’s child will die at the age of 20. Haunted by this prophecy, Sakina becomes overly protective of her son Muzamil, who grows up knowing about his fate. As Muzamil escapes Sakina’s ever-watchful eye, he encounters friends, ideas and challenges that make him question his destiny. Sudan’s first Oscar submission, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is an auspicious debut and a moving meditation on what it means to live in the present.
SCREENING DATE AND TIME
Available Fri May 7th 6:00 pm (EST) – Sun May 9th 11:45 pm
(EST).
Q & A
Sat May 8th, 2021 (12:30 pm EST | 5:30 pm GMT+1 | 6.30 pm GMT +2)
In conversation with Director Amjad Abu Alala moderated by Dr Suad Musa
RUN TIME
1 hour 43 minutes
YEAR
2019
COUNTRY
Sudan
LANGUAGE
Arabic (English subtitles)
DIRECTOR
Amjad Abu Alala
SCREENWRITERS
Amjad Abu Alala
Yousef Ibrahim
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Hossam Elouan
PRODUCER
Arnaud Dommerc
Michael Henrichs
Ingrid Lill Hogtun
CO-PRODUCER
Mohammed Alomd’a
Sherif Fathy
Mohamed Hefzy
DOP
Sébastien Goepfert
EDITOR
Heba Othman
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Amine Bouhafa
STARRING
Mustafa Shehata
Islam Mubarak
Mahmoud Elsaraj
Bunna Khalid
Talal Afifi
Amal Mustafa
Moatasem Rashid
Asjad Mohamed
Director's Bio
Amjad Abu Alala is a Sudanese Director and Producer, born in UAE and raised between Dubai and Sudan, He studied directing in media at the UAE University and worked as a film director and Producer with various media institutions for Arab and Western channels.
He has made many short films that screened in different film festivals, including “Teena” , “Coffee and Oranges”, “Feather of the Birds” and “Studio” in 2012, supervised by Abbas Kiarostami. In 2013 he received the Best Arabic Theater Script award from the Arab Authority for Theater for “Apple Pies”.
Since 2014 Amjad worked as Head of Programming Committee on Sudan Independent Film Festival.
His current feature film as a director and Co-Producer You will die at twenty won Lion of the Future at Venice International Film Festival and another 20 awards from Arab and international film festivals and it was the first submission in history from Sudan to the Oscars. Now with his production company “Station Films” he is producing many new feature films with different Sudanese filmmakers. Awards
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This project is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through funding from the Georgia General Assembly.
