You Will Die at Twenty

At a glance

You Will Die at Twenty, is a 2020 Egyptian movie, directed by Amjad Abu Alala, and starring Mustafa Shehata, Mahmoud Alsarraj, Islam Mubark, with a runtime of 103 minutes. Content rating: 12A.

Overview

You Will Die at Twenty is a 2019 Sudanese drama film that follows Muzamil, a boy whose birth is overshadowed by a holy man's prophecy foretelling his death at age twenty. The curse fractures his family — his father abandons the home unable to bear the weight of it, leaving his mother Sakina to raise Muzamil alone with suffocating protectiveness. Set in a remote Sudanese village steeped in ritual and silence, the film traces Muzamil's youth as he grows under the shadow of his own mortality. When he turns nineteen, the approaching deadline forces a reckoning with fate, faith, and freedom. A striking debut praised at international festivals, the film blends intimate character study with vivid depictions of rural Sudanese life, exploring how prophecy and fear can imprison a soul as surely as any physical cage.

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