Al Baraneya

A warm, quietly tense family drama that immerses you in village life and the ache of wanting more.

Directed by

Ashgan El-Hamus

Genres

Drama

Starring

Reem Amer, Fatma Ibrahim El-Hamus, Nadia Ahmed El-Hadary

Overview

Pregnant Amal lives together with her family in Al Baraneya, a village outside Cairo, surrounded by jasmine fields. Their chaotic yet loving way of life is upset when a landowner offers to buy their land. The pressure to sell divides the family and doubts begin to grow. When Amal’s cousin Rania visits from Cairo, she captivates Amal and her younger sisters with her modern lifestyle: jeans, TikTok videos, and lively city stories. Amal starts to question the life that seems to have been laid out for her and dreams of moving to Cairo. Now that the potential sale of the land offers the prospect of a future in the city, the family’s unshakable faith in their own life in the village starts to waver.

How it feels

Warm, melancholic, earnest and tense. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Family, identity, class, trauma

Content

Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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