dessi films

With the lack of personal video archive, Youhanna (the filmmaker) creates false memories using lost home videotapes shot between the 1990s and 2000s in Europe, Africa, and Asia, with the help of an Artificial intelligence programme, until a real, personal video archive surfaces, transporting him into the past to relive one more memory with his late mother.

A lonely mid-thirty music teacher, Christine, moves to work in a secondary school for boys, where she meets 16-year-old talented pianist, Marwan, and starts to offer him private lessons. Their relationship grows more controversial, and her students and colleagues terribly questions the truth of her relationship with Marwan, the thing that pushes her into a difficult crisis with herself.

Farid, a young man in his late twenties from a broken family in Alexandria, is forced to move to Cairo in search of work, leaving his mother behind. On his thirtieth birthday, she catches him off guard with a surprise that compels him to make decisions he has long put off.

We live with Zahra on the night of her mother’s death and accompany her on a journey of coming to terms with loss.

Between a father whose life has always been intertwined with the sea and a daughter trying to understand her own connection to it—and to him—an intimate journey unfolds through days of shared moments and buried memories. As she attempts to spend more time with her father and reach the moment when he finally chooses to speak, a past incident that reshaped their lives, their family, and their relationship with the sea slowly comes to the surface. In the process, she begins to discover what the sea, her father, and their shared history truly mean to her

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