Kortfilmfestival Leuven - 2026

2026

Maha Maamoun • Egypt • 2010 • 9 min.

A time traveller recounts his vision of a post-revolution Egypt in the year 2026, an image of the future stuck in a hopeless repetition of the present. Based on a text from the Egyptian novel 'The Revolution of 2053' and a scene from Chris Marker's La Jetée. In an instance of eerie foreboding, this film was made just one year before the actual Egyptian revolution of 2011, in which then-president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown.

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South-South Futurisms