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You Will Die at 20

ستموت في العشرين

2019

When a village holy man prophesies that a newborn boy will die at twenty, his father flees in despair and his mother raises him in fearful, smothering piety. As the fatal birthday nears, the young man begins to question the curse and yearn to truly live. A luminous Sudanese drama.

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Part of 7 Essential Films from Sudan

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