Perfumed with Mint (111')*
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ALFILM Festival - Berlin
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.
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16th ALFILM - Arab Film Festival Berlin Taking place between the 23rd - 30th of April 2025 at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, City Kino Wedding, Kino in der KulturBrauerei, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Wolf Kino, Spore Initiative and Gretchen, the 16th edition of ALFILM features a wide selection of feature films, documentaries, and short films, while masterclasses, panel discussions, talks, special screenings, and a closing party round off the varied programme. As in previous years, the festival promises audiences a cinematic experience of artistic merit and relevance to timely issues across two program sections. ALFILM Selection highlights the richness of the contemporary Arab cinema landscape with film productions from the past two years. In ALFILM Spotlight Canceled Futures, Endless Pasts: Speculative Fiction on and Archival Subversions of the (Post)colonial Condition, the genre of speculative fiction and the subversive use of the archive are at the centre of an artistic examination of the (post)colonial entanglements of the Arab region. Complete programme at https://alfilm.berlin/.
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