Egyptian film 50 Meters to premiere at Copenhagen Int'l Documentary Film Festival - Screens - Arts & Culture

The Egyptian documentary film 50 Meters will have its world premiere during the 22nd edition of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX), held from 19 to 30 March.
Directed and written by Yomna Khattab, 50 Meters follows a father-daughter journey at a swimming pool in Cairo. Through her filmmaking process, Khattab uses this opportunity to bridge the gap with her distant father. She explores their relationship by crafting fictional scenes and drafting voice-overs for him as she connects through existential questions about career, parenthood, and mortality.
The 72-minute-long film will compete in the Next:Wave section, focusing on emerging international artists and filmmakers.
The Egypt-Denmark-Saudi co-production marks Khattab's debut feature. Earlier, she wrote the short film Let Us Play Yesterday directed by Menna Ekram, which premiered at the El Gouna Film Festival in 2023.
The festival will also feature titles from other Arab countries.
The Lebanese film International Satan's Day (Raed Yassin), the Qatari film Perishable Idol (Majid Al-Remaih), the Tunisian film Images de Tunisie (Younes Ben Slimane), and the Palestinian film To a Land Unknown (Mehdi Fleifel) are among the Arab films screening at CPH:DOX.
This year's CPH:DOX will feature over 200 new documentaries, of which 94 are world premieres. This edition will focus on human rights under the theme 'Right Here, Right Now.'
Founded in 2003, the CPH:DOX is one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world. The festival fills Copenhagen's cinemas with over 200 films worldwide every year.
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