Dear you,

Rasia Yusuf / Egypt / 2026 / World Premiere / 3 min.

synopsis

Fragments of body and landscape emerge from cinematic silence, given a shared skin by the grain and scars of black-and-white film. Definitions of getting acquainted, embracing and parting trace the course of an encounter whose intimacy eludes dictionary entries. Between naming and the sensory trace, a grammar of closeness takes shape: how to preserve a touch when all that remains is a word of greeting.

"tanışmak — to get to know one another; sarılmak — to embrace, to cling to, to hold on tightly; vedalaşmak — to say goodbye to one another."

biography

Rasia Yusuf is a Somali independent filmmaker and photographer based in Cairo. She creates work as part of workshops such as essay-films, Between Women Filmmakers Caravan and Cairo Compressed. In her debut short film, Debut Essay Film (2021), she explores the concept of home. She conceived the autobiographical I’ll Wait for You by the Sea (2023) as a letter to her newborn sister, whom she had not yet met. This was followed by the film Looking for Cairo (2025).