A stranger abandons human life to journey into the barren wilderness and experience its exodus. We identify with his thoughts, which reveal vanished worlds. “My flowing tears transformed into an apocalyptic flood,” says the stranger.

I’ve Known Rivers was shot in three deserts—Redayef in Tunisia, Wadi Al Hitan in Egypt, and Wadi Degla in Egypt—and produced entirely remotely, without the two filmmakers meeting in person.

South of Ajdabiya, founded in 2022 by Saif Fradj (Tunisia) and Esraa Elfeky (Egypt), is a collective of filmmakers interested in the North African desert, its sciences, and its mysteries. Using a mix of old film techniques, drawings, and contemporary audio-visual effects, the collective aims to rewrite a common lost memory of the North African region on which the subjective imagination relies.

Developed through the BEYOND THE "NEW-NORM" program by Arab Media Lab in Marrakech, Morroco.