Khamsa – The Well of Oblivion (2022)

Original title

Khamsa - The Well of Oblivion

Directed by

Vynom

Genre

animation, fantasy, mystery

Country

Algeria

Runtime

1h 17m

Rating

2.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman investigates a mysterious well tied to an old myth in an Algerian landscape. The story mixes personal loss with local folklore.

visually lushslow-burndreamlikemelancholicatmosphericmythicaldeliberateintrospectivebrooding

What happens

Khamsa – The Well of Oblivion (Arabic: خامسة – بئر النسيان) is a 2022 Algerian animated film directed by Khaled Chiheb, who goes by the alias "Vynom," and produced by D-clik Production. The film is 77 minutes long, in the Arabic language, and represents Algeria's first animated feature film. The film was selected for competition at major festivals, including the 2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival and the Ottawa International Animation Festival. In 2023, it won the Kabuku Award at the inaugural Niigata International Animation Film Festival in Japan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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