YOU WILL DIE AT 20

cinematography
Sébastien Goepfert
editing
Heba Othman
music
Amine Bouhafa
sound
Rawad Hobeika
Rana Eid
Florent Lavallée

cast
Mustafa Shehata [Muzamil]
Islam Mubark [Sakina]
Mahmoud Elsaraj
[Sulaiman]
Bunna Khalid [Naima]
Talal Afifi [Alnoor]
Amal Mustafa
[Set Alnesea]
Moatasem Rashid
[Muzamil Kid]
Asjad Mohamed
[Naima Kid]

producers
Arnaud Dommerc
Hossam Elouan
Ingrid Lill Högtun
Michael Henrichs
productions
Andolfi
Transit Films
DUOFilm AS
Die Gesellschaft DGS

co-producers
Amjad Abu Alala
Mohammed Alomda
Linda Bolstad Strönen
Marie Fuglestein Lægreid
co-production
Station Films Cinema Production

world sales
Pyramide International
mail

International
press office
The PR Factory
Julie Vanderhaeghen
Barbara Van Lombeek

Filmography

2019 You Will Die at 20

2012 Studio (short)

2009 Teena (short)

2007 Reesh Altoyoor (Feathers of the Birds, short)

2004 Orange and Coffee (short)

2003 Slump on Cannes roads (short)

2001 In the End of the fall (short)

Amjad Abu Alala is a Sudanese filmmaker who was born and raised in the UAE. He studied media at United Arab Emirates University. As a producer and director, he has made numerous short films that have been shown at film festivals, including Orange and Coffee (2004), Feathers of the Birds (2007) and Teena (2009), which is considered to mark the return of cinema in Sudan. His Studio (2012) was supervised during a workshop conducted by Abbas Kiarostami. In 2013, Abu Alala won the Best Arabic Theatre Script Award from the Arab Authority, for Apple Pies. Currently, Abu Alala is Head of the Programming Committee of the Sudan Independent Film Festival.

"Muzamil is just one of us, like many of us when we sometimes get stuck in society's roles! Stuck in a box that we are not supposed to get out of and smell the air! The story portrays so much grief and pain in those communities that are drowning in ignorance, believing in imposters' supersti- tions. Muzamil has spent his lifetime paying the price for everyone around him just believing in nothingness, to the extent that he has embraced the idea of his own death. My film is an invitation to freedom. Nothing and no one should ever tell you: Muzamil, this is your destiny, it's written in stone and you should stick to it. You need to run, kid!" [Amjad Abu Alala]