Venice Film Festival 2026
Pregnant Amal lives with her family in Al Baraneya, a village near Cairo surrounded by jasmine fields. Their chaotic yet loving life is disrupted when a landowner offers to buy their land, creating tensions within the family. When Amal’s cousin Rania visits from Cairo, her modern lifestyle and stories of city life captivate Amal and her younger sisters. Inspired by Rania, Amal become skeptical about her future in the village and dreams of moving to Cairo. As they consider selling their land, the family begins to question the rural life they have always known.
A graduate of the Netherlands Film Academy, Ashgan El-Hamus is a Dutch Egyptian writer-director. Her films include Birdland, which won the Grand Prix de la Ville de Brest 2020 and Lois Lane, part of the anthology Onze Straat.
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