Paula Palacios

Thousands of people have crossed the Mediterranean Sea these years trying to reach Europe. Through a mysterious voice from the bottom of the sea, Drowning Letters tells the most tragic years of the European contemporary history.

It tells the story of the director's relationship with Ali, a young man who fled the war in Somalia at the age of fourteen. Their meeting in a Ukrainian prison in 2012 causes a turning point in Ali's life.

Ten years after the failed revolution of Tahrir Square in Egypt, Al-Sisi’s regime continues to practice forced disappearance, imprisonment without trial, torture. Shaimaa and Ahmed, activists in exile, and Mohamed Lotfy, who still live in Cairo, continue to fight to denounce the current government and those who, masquerading behind declarations of façade, arm and finance it.