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Ahmed, the son of the king of Cairo’s junkyard, must confront his powerful father after the ghost of his murdered best friend appears during a moulid and reveals that Ahmed’s father is responsible for his death.
Ahmed, the son of Nabil, known as the “King of the Junkyard”, struggles under his father’s strict rule. Longing for freedom, he befriends Younis, a carefree young man who wanders from one moulid (Sufi festival) to another. Widowed and burdened with responsibility, Nabil tries to maintain order in both the junkyard and his community, but sees Younis as a threat to his son’s discipline and to the legacy he’s grooming him to inherit. Through Younis, Ahmed discovers the colourful, chaotic world of moulids, where he experiences a strange fainting episode and visions that suggest he possesses a mysterious gift.

Tensions escalate when a crime in the neighbourhood forces Nabil to assert his authority, and Younis exposes his hypocrisy. Soon after, Younis dies under suspicious circumstances. Ahmed is devastated, haunted by grief and guilt, until Younis’s ghost appears to him in a vision, revealing that he was murdered. Ahmed’s investigation leads to a shocking discovery: his own father orchestrated Younis’s death. When he confronts Nabil, his father dismisses him as delusional, blaming the moulids for corrupting his mind. But when Younis’s mother learns the truth, she takes matters into her own hands, attempting to orchestrate Nabil’s death to avenge her son, only to pardon him in a final act of mercy. Ahmed is left shattered, caught between loyalty and justice.

Credits

Director
Ahmed Fawzi-Saleh
Screenwriter
Ahmed Fawzi-Saleh, Ahmed Amer
Producer
Ahmed Amer
Cast
Ahmed Dash

About the Director

Ahmed Fawzi Saleh
Ahmed Fawzi-Saleh holds a degree in History from Suez Canal University in Egypt. Later, he graduated from the High Cinema Institute in Egypt in 2009, specialising in screenwriting. He took part in several documentaries as a scriptwriter and a researcher. His short documentary ‘Living Skin’ (2010) was screened in many international film festivals. His feature ‘Poisonous Roses’ premiered at IFFR 201
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