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The National Committee of the Sudanese Ministry of Culture and Information has announced the selection of Sudanese film “You Will Die at Twenty” by Sudanese director Amjad Abu Al-Alaa, to represent the country at international Oscars, after having achieved great success in the last period.

The film premiered in the Arab world at the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt in September 2019, and the second session of the Al Ain Film Festival opened in the United Arab Emirates last January.

The film is its director’s first feature-length feature film after a series of documentaries and won the “Lion of the Future” award at the Venice Film Festival, which is awarded to promising directors with first employers.

It is based on a short story called “Sleeping at the foot of the mountain” by the Sudanese writer Hamor Ziada. The film stars Mustafa Shehata, Mutasim Rashid, Islam Mubarak, Mahmoud Al-Sarraj, Buthaina Khaled, Talal Afifi and Amal Mustafa.

It is the story of Muzammil, who was born in a village in Sudan and his mother took him to one of the sheikhs to bless him, but the surprise was in the sheikh’s prediction that the child would die when he turned 20, so the mother lived all his life wearing black mourning for his son who was still alive before his eyes. Likewise, the son lived stuck in the prophecy that prevented him from enjoying anything in the world, even the only girl who loved and loved him.

After obtaining the rights to the script, the director made sure the elements of the film were mostly Sudanese. In a previous interview with Reuters, Abu Ala said: “The absence of a film industry in Sudan or the infrastructure for this industry does not mean that Sudanese cannot make films, as we are today in an open world.”

He added: “Of course, I found it difficult to find Sudanese technical cadres qualified in lighting, sound and photography, but even with the help of Egyptian and foreign elements and experiences, I was eager to be accompanied by young Sudanese talents in every specialty to learn and to gain experience”.

After receiving the award at the Venice Film Festival, the director said it “means a lot to me on a personal level and to Sudanese cinema. I think it will provide an opportunity to shed more light on the country and its arts.”

He added: “The ceiling of ambition has risen, and this scares me a little bit of the next. I don’t want to fall into the trap of the long wait until I find a job at the same level and my career is interrupted.”