Perfumed with Mint - Alfilm Arab Festival

Das sagt der/die Veranstalter:in:

Fiction, Director: Muhammed Hamdy, Egypt/Qatar/Tunisia/France, 2024, 111 min, AR, with EN st. 

Cairo, post-apocalypse, a city of shadows and ghosts. Physician Bahaa (Alaa El Din Hamada) receives patients in a dark, crumbling room of his clinic. A mother seeks his counsel, worried about her son’s condition; in death he keeps reappearing, unable - or perhaps unwilling - to leave. A peculiar universe unfolds where men with troubled pasts must contend with mint leaves sprouting out of their heads and open scars. They must also run away from other nameless men who are out to get them. Smoking hashish and reciting poetry become the only means of survival in a world ruled by sedation and devoured by fear.

With this film, award-winning Egyptian cinematographer Muhammed Hamdy (The Square, Ruben Östlund, 2017) makes his directorial debut, showcasing a unique virtuosity in poetic storytelling and remarkable visual richness. The film premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

Followed by a film talk with Muhammed Hamdy.