A gay Egyptian couple return from America for a family emergency. In this homophobic environment, their secret threatens to unravel under anxiety, unease, and suspicion that someone is using witchcraft to send them back.
Direction
Mokbel weaponizes silence and side-eye into pure terror.
Acting
Zahdi's controlled panic is absolutely shattering.
Sound
Every creak and whisper builds unbearable tension.
Director
Marwan Mokbel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film deliberately blurs horror and psychological realism—Egypt's 2017 Mashrou' Leila concert crackdown and ongoing LGBTQ+ persecution make the 'witchcraft' threat feel disturbingly plausible as family violence.
The mother's final scene reportedly required 17 takes because Nohra kept reducing the crew to tears; Mokbel used the fourth take because her restraint was 'more terrifying than any scream.'
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