Your 13-year-old self wrote you a letter. You brave enough to open it?
"Dear Future Self," is based off a letter I wrote to myself back when I was 13 years old. The film highlights the struggles and confusions about growing up. It captures the essence of childhood nostalgia and walks the audience down to memory lane.
Direction
Debut feature from Al Reem Al Beshr — intimate, unfiltered.
Writing
Auto-biographical source material hits different when it's *actually* autobiographical.
Director
Al Reem Al Beshr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'letter to future self' trend peaked in 2010s youth culture; this film weaponizes that specific generational ritual.
Director Al Reem Al Beshr reportedly refused to cast a child actor as her younger self, using only archival materials instead — a choice that blurs documentary and fiction boundaries.
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