Yehya witnesses drastic changes in his society when the death of his mother takes him back to Alexandria, the city of his youth. He encounters friends old and new, who introduce him to the new face of the ancient, decaying metropolis. He finds a message in a bottle, written in an undecipherable language, and so begins an endless search for meaning in a world that he is instinctively drawn to, yet unable to comprehend. A charming meditation on existence, memory, love and social
disintegration. –Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Daoud Abdel Sayed was born in Cairo in 1946. He began his film career as an assistant director to Youssef Chahine. The Vagabonds (1985) established him as a pioneer of New Realism in Egyptian cinema; since then he has made a number of commercially successful films. The Land of Fear (1999) won Best Arabic Film at the Cairo International Film Festival. Selected filmography: Al KitKat (1991), Land of Dreams (1994), The Wedding Thief (1995) and A Citizen, a Detective and a Thief (2001). —Film ADFF
