Film: The Valley of Salt (La Vallée du Sel), dir. Christophe M. Saber

2016 | 62 minutes
Country of Production: Switzerland
Countries Featured: Switzerland, Egypt

In the wake of the Arab Spring and Egypt’s political turmoil, the young filmmaker Christophe Saber returns to his childhood home in Cairo. While his camera rolls, a typical reunion and family holiday turns into a dramatic and unnerving ordeal as his Christian parents receive death threats from the newly empowered Muslim Brotherhood.

AMNH 2017 Mead Film Festival