Standing at the Ruins (Egypt/UK)

Starring: Karima Mansour
Written & Directed By: Saeed Taji Farouky
Produced By: Menna Ekram, Michel Makram, Saeed Farouky

A feature fiction film, selected for Venice International Film Festival's Final Cut programme in 2025 while still in progress, completed in 2026. After sixteen years away, Hala returns to Cairo to settle her mother's inheritance, only to find herself unraveling not just legal ties, but the tangled threads of memory, loss, and belonging.

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