Akher Ziyarah (Last Visit)
In a surprise visit to his village, amidst the health complications of his elderly, dying father and the mystery surrounding a missing child, Nasser is confronted by another challenge – the intense relationship with his adolescent son, Waleed.
1h 16min | Arabic | Arri raw 2.8K | 2.39:1 (Cinemascope) | Color
DIRECTOR: Abdulmohsen Aldhabaan | WRITERS: Fahad Alestaa & Abdulmohsen Aldhabaan
CAST: Osama Alqess, Abdullah Alfahad, Fahad Alghariri | PRODUCER: Mohammed Alhamoud
DISTRIBUTOR: MC Distributions (MENA) , CineWaves Films (KSA)
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
(Czech Republic) Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
(Germany) Mannheim-Heidelberg Internationale Film Festival
(Morrocco) Marrakech International Film Festival (WINNER Jury Award)
(Tunisia) Gabes Cinema Fen Festival
(Italy) Giffoni Film Festival
(Jordan) Amman International Film Festival (WINNER Special Mention Award)
(Germany) 16th Arab Film Festival in Tübingen/Stuttgart
(Argentina) LatinArab International Film Festival
(Egypt) Cairo Cinema Days
(Germany) DFF - Deutsches Filmminstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfur
(France) Les Rencontres internationales de cinéma d’Aflam
(Saudi Arabia) Redsea International Film Festival
(Germany) ALFILM Arab Film Festival Berlin
DIRECTOR'S BIO
Abdulmohsen Aldhabaan is an independent Saudi writer-director who co-founded the Talashi Film Collective in 2008, and directed several short films including Three Men and a Woman (2009) and The Incomplete Chronicles of a Folk Tale (2010). He co-created and directed the critically-acclaimed TV drama series 42 Days. Aldhabaan debut feature Last Visit (2019) is the first Arab film to be selected at Karlovy Vary’s East of the West Competition, and the Jury Award winner at Marrakech International Film Festival.