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A Present from the Past: 20 September, is a 2016 Egyptian movie, directed by Kawthar Younis, and starring Kawthar Younis, Mokhtar Younis. with a runtime of 80 minutes.
A Present from the Past: 20 September is a documentary film of rare emotional intimacy, following Mokhtar, a 75-year-old filmmaking professor, and his daughter Kawthar, a young director who surprises him on his birthday with two plane tickets to Rome. Their destination: Patrizia, the love Mokhtar promised to return to thirty-three years ago. What makes the film extraordinary is that Kawthar secretly films her father throughout the journey, capturing his unguarded emotions and the full weight of regret and hope with her hidden camera. The result is a deeply moving meditation on time, lost love, and the complex tenderness between fathers and daughters — a unique piece of Arabic documentary cinema.
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