2025 | S16mm | 1:1.66 | 99mins | colour |5.1

Synopsis
Shot on 16mm with open sets and non-actors, Żafżifa unfolds as an emotional journey of yearning, scepticism, and hope. 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.
CAST
Dimitros: Dimitrios Giannakoudakis
Annie: Crishelle Medrano
Karim: Mehdi Aoumi
Rana: Zohaib Anjum
CREW
Writer, Director, Camera: Peter Sant
Producers: Angelique Muller, Peter Sant
Editors: Daniel Goddard, Emma Van Den Berg, Peter Sant
Sound: Peter Sant
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