Born in 1984 in the United Arab Emirates to Sudanese parents and raised in Sudan, Amjad Abu Alala trained in Sudan and worked as a film-maker and producer while promoting Sudanese film after decades in which few films were made. His first feature You Will Die at Twenty (2019), adapted from a story by Hammour Ziada about a boy who is predicted to die at twenty, won the Lion of the Future for best first film at Venice and was Sudan's first Oscar entry. It was shot in a Nile village.
Filmography
- You Will Die at Twenty (2019)