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Maysoon

SCREENPLAY: Nancy Biniadaki
DIRECTOR: Nancy Biniadaki
DOP: Jean-Marc Junge
EDITOR: Panos Voutsaras
MUSIC: Thalia Ioannidou
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Anne Zentgraf
COSTUME DESIGN: Sabin Groeflin
MAKE-UP Evi Zafeiropoulou
SOUND Giannis Antipas
GERMAN DISTRIBUTION: GRANDFILM
WORLD SALES: MPM Premium

 

A relationship unravels, a passport expires – and suddenly everything is at stake.

Egyptian archaeologist Maysoon (Sabrina Amali) lives in Berlin with her partner Tobi (Florian Stetter) and their two children when her past resurfaces. Once politically active before the Arab Spring, she now faces the risk that a return to Egypt could cost her freedom. Fearing the loss of her home, her family, and her sense of control, Maysoon is forced into a struggle – against Tobi, against the system, and against herself.

Caught between bureaucracy, a fractured relationship, and the question of who her children truly belong to, a story of guilt and self-assertion gradually comes to light.

Maysoon is an intimate, multi-layered drama about a woman at the edge of her existence – and about the radical power of love.

Written and directed by Nancy Biniadaki

With
 
Sabrina Amali, Susanne Bormann, Vivian Daniel, Heike Hanold-Lynch, Maya Ghazal, Karyofyllia Karabeti, Deborah Kaufmann, Mehdi Meskar, Josef Mohamed, Bianca Nawrath, Salma Said, Patrick Schlegel, Elias Sououd, Florian Stetter, Marie Tragousti, Zoë Valks, Katharina Wittenbrink

 

Produced by Watchmen Productions in co-production with Graal Films and unafilm 
in co-production with rbb, ERT and the Greek Film Centre
Funded by Creative Europe MEDIA, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Hessen Film & Media and DFFF – German Federal Film Fund

World Premiere at Filmfest Oldenburg 2025

International Premiere at Thessaloniki IFF 2025, international competition