SIFF 2024: Arabic Short Films 1

The Sack: After passengers waited an hour to load the last car heading to the village of Abu al-Matamir, there was only a chair left. The old saleswoman decided to ride with her smelly sack despite the driver’s oath of divorce not to ride the sack. Whether he will ride the chawl or not so that they can go. But the surprise happens eventually. A Beautiful Excuse For A Deadly Sin A young man tries to climb up with a horse through the narrow flight of stairs of his building to live with him in his apartment, while the neighbors stand against him. Nya Taking place in Algerian suburbia in 1994, the story revolves around Anya — a seven-year-old girl who blissfully experiences her childhood without being aware of the turmoil caused by the civil war engulfing her country. Her sole desire is for her father — a journalist away on an assignment — to come back in time for the Mouloud holiday. Nevertheless, the violence of the real world slowly encroaches upon her daily life, causing her childish innocence to waver. Where Have You Been? A young artist in his twenties abandons his family, refusing to submit to social constraints. Depressed, lonely, and stuck in his small, derelict studio flat, he stumbles upon his elderly neighbor — a woman neglected by her family and in need of intimacy. Despite their differences, the two develop an unlikely connection through their shared experiences of hardship and love of music. Bekaria In a village in Upper Egypt called Bikaria, a young man is facing a crisis in achieving his dream of becoming a drummer, challenging both his illness and the customs of his village that reject any unfamiliar sound.