Best Feature Documentary Award
The Africa No Filter Special Jury Award
International Critics Week Special Mention
FESPACO - Official Selection
Cairo International Film Festival - Official Selection
IDFA - Luminous
In search of understanding and healing, filmmaker and activist Bassam Mortada explores his father’s arrest, imprisonment, and torture in Abo Zaabal 89, re-constructing and reconsidering the experience that traumatised and divided his family.
بحثًا عن الفهم والشفاء، يستكشف المخرج والناشط بسّام مرتضى قصة اعتقال والده وسجنه وتعذيبه في فيلم "أبو زعبل ٨٩". وفي الفيلم، يعيد بسّام بناء وتأمل التجربة التي سببت صدمة لعائلته وفرّقت شملها.