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Acting
Mahmoud Yassin's final performance — towering, terrifying, unforgettable.
Direction
Arafa turns Upper Egypt into a pressure cooker of dread.
Cinematography
The island itself becomes a character — isolated, suffocating, inescapable.

Director
Sherif Arafa
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