You Will Die at Twenty

You Will Die at Twenty
Film poster
Arabicستموت في العشرين
Directed byAmjad Abu Alala
Written byAmjad Abu Alala
Yousef Ibrahim
Based on"Sleeping at The Foot of The Mountain"
by Hammour Ziada
Produced byArnaud Dommerc
Michael Henrichs
Ingrid Lill Høgtun
Marie Fuglestein Lægreid
Linda Bolstad Strønen
StarringIslam Mubarak
Moatasem Rashed
Mahmoud Alsarraj
Bonna Khalid
Talal Afifi
CinematographySébastien Goepfert
Edited byHeba Othman
Music byAmin Bouhafa
Production
companies
Andolfi
Canal+ International
DUOfilm
Die Gesellschaft DGS
Film-Clinic
Station Films
Sunny Land Film
Transit Films
Release date
  • 29 August 2019 (2019-08-29) (Venice)
Running time
103 minutes
CountriesSudan
France
Egypt
Germany
Norway
Qatar
LanguageSudanese Arabic

You Will Die at Twenty (Arabic: ستموت في العشرين, romanizedsatamūt fīl-ʿishrīn) is a 2019 Sudanese drama film directed by Amjad Abu Alala. Selected as the Sudanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, it was not nominated.[1] It was the first film from Sudan ever to have been submitted for an Oscar competition.[2]

  1. ^ Anderson, Erik (16 November 2020). "Sudan selects 'You Will Die at Twenty' as its first-ever International Feature Film Oscar entry". Awards Watch. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Sudan chooses "You Will Die at Twenty" to represent it in a Oscar competition". Youm7. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2020.