You Will Die at 20 (2019)

Original title

ستموت في العشرين

Directed by

Amjad Abu Alala

Genre

drama film

Country

Sudan, Qatar, Germany, France

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

U

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy grows up in a small Sudanese village under a prophecy that he will die at age twenty. His mother grieves his future loss while he searches for ordinary experiences in the time he has left.

melancholicslow-burncontemplativesomberintimatepoignantquietfateful

What happens

You Will Die at Twenty (Arabic: ستموت في العشرين, romanized: satamūt fīl-ʿishrīn) is a 2019 Sudanese drama film directed by Amjad Abu Alala. Selected as the Sudanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, it was not nominated. It was the first film from Sudan ever to have been submitted for an Oscar competition. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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