Marrakech – Franco-Egyptian filmmaker Namir Abdel Messeeh brought his deeply personal documentary “Life After Siham” to the 22nd Marrakech International Film Festival, where the film received its first Moroccan screening.
The 76-minute documentary represents the director’s second feature-length work, following his acclaimed 2012 debut “The Virgin, the Copts and Me.”
Born October 7, 1974, to a Coptic Egyptian family, Abdel Messeeh graduated from La Fémis in 2000. His parents were forced into French exile during the 1970s after his father’s imprisonment under Nasser’s regime due to communist affiliations. This biographical backdrop constitutes much of his cinematic interrogation of identity and displacement.
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“Life After Siham” emerged from the director’s struggle with his mother’s death from cancer. Speaking to Morocco World News (MWN), Abdel Messeeh described filmmaking as “a survival act,” his continued mourning of his mother’s death.
“I felt like I had to maintain that promise to make another film with her, and she wasn’t here anymore,” he explained about transforming private mourning into public st
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