21-04-2025
Saudi-supported film to screen at Cannes parallel section ACID
DUBAI: ACID, a Cannes Film Festival parallel section, has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition, which includes the Red Sea Film Foundation-supported film 'Life After Siham' from Egyptian filmmaker Namir Abdel Messeeh.
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The autobiographical hybrid-documentary – supported by Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Fund – follows the director as he grieves his mother's death while dealing with a creative impasse as he leads a writing workshop in Egypt.
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The film follows two parallel tracks, mixing family footage the director shot before and after his mother's passing against the fictional backdrop of a creative retreat set at the late Egyptian director Youssef Chahine's one-time residence.
'The film will also be a portrait of contemporary Egypt,' Messeeh told Variety in an earlier interview. 'Depicting a younger generation as they develop their own creative projects in post-revolution Egypt. Through them we'll explore different facets of the modern country.'
