ŻAFŻIFA
Cast - Dimitrios Giannakoudakis - Crishelle Medrano - Mehdi Aouni - Zohaib Anjum - Marylu Coppini Crew - Writer/Director/Camera: Peter Sant - Producers: Angelique Muller & Peter Sant - Editors: Daniel Goddard, Emma van den Berg &, Peter Sant - Sound Design: Peter Sant
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Cairo IFF 2025 (international competition) - Panorama of the European Film 2025 (Egypt)
Synopsis
Shot on 16mm with open sets and non-actors, Żafżifa unfolds as an emotional journey of yearning, scepticism, and hope. The stories, shaped not by invention but by lived encounters, build continuously, culminating in an architectural and emotional collapse.
Set in a small and densely populated seaside town in Malta, it paints a corrosive portrait of a man drifting through a world of concrete and steel to discover his friends have taken advantage of the changing economy and moved on with their lives. Tortured by a mysterious past, he unleashes himself from the progress that surrounds him.
Throughout, friends and enemies swim by, failing to puncture his carapace until he meets Annie. She, like him, has a child she never sees; has been disappointed in love; lives in a vacuum, without freedom, without companionship. Brought together by fate and torn apart by circumstance, together they struggle against a barrage of obstacles the gods throw in their path.
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Adrian Martin, Film Critic
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Written, arranged, performed and mixed by Peter Sant. *Escape Monotony and *Outro with Ivan Hoe on drums. Mastered by Amir Shoat.
A2 - 42cm x 60cm
Printed by the amazing :https://www.screengirlmerch.com. On G.F Smith heavy weight paper crafted from responsibly sourced virgin fibre no less.
Set of 4 - 10” x 4”
Printed on 350gsm Card
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