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52 minutes | Documentary | Color and B&W | 2014 | Released on tv

SYNOPSIS

The film sheds a light on the Egyptian Nubian case through the story of a dispersed Nubian family. Um Mahgoub, an elderly Nubian woman, has three married children, each of them lives in a different city while she lives alone in a remote vacant village on lake Nasser. In spite of her children’s constant applications to move her into any of their places, she has been adamant on staying in her own house where she can be as close as possible to their drowned homeland. 

Written and Directed by Ahmed Ismaiel Nour

Based on the research by Amira Ahmed