Directed by: Yasmin Moll
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime: 7:50
Category: Animation
A young Nubian girl embarks on a journey back in time to reconnect with her drowned homeland. Guided by the Nile egret, she travels underwater within the lake created by Egypt’s Aswan High Dam to visit Nubia’s mountains and palm trees, water wheels and houses, men and women. She bids farewell to her people as they board the boats that will take them to their resettlement villages. Returning to her own time, she carries the strength of knowing that Nubia will always live on inside her.
Director Biography – Yasmin Moll
Yasmin Moll is an ethnographic filmmaker. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from New York University and is a graduate of its renowned Culture and Media program in ethnographic film theory and production. Yasmin grew up in Egypt and currently lives in the US, where she is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan.