And there was evening and there was morning. The first day

Feb 7, 2025

2h 0m

★ 10.0

Experimental, Hybrid, Essay

Overview

With the lack of personal video archive, Youhanna (the filmmaker) creates false memories using lost home videotapes shot between the 1990s and 2000s in Europe, Africa, and Asia, with the help of an Artificial intelligence programme, until a real, personal video archive surfaces, transporting him into the past to relive one more memory with his late mother.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

True Frog Films

dessi films

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Cast

Mother

mary-terez william

Son

Youhanna Nagy

Father

Nagy fawzy

daughter

Youstina nagy

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And there was evening and there was morning. The first day

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