ROQIA

World premiere: Venice Film Festival 2025 / Settimana Internazionale della Critica

IN COMPETITION

In 1993, after a car crash leaves Ahmed amnesiac, he returns to his village, where nothing feels familiar — not his wife, not his children. His youngest, frightened by Ahmed’s bandaged face, fears him deeply. Each night, strange visitors whisper litanies in an unknown tongue. Who are they? And why does his so-called friend, the neighbor, make him feel so uneasy?

In the present, an aging Raqi battles Alzheimer’s. As possessed people speak in foreign tongues and violence rises, Ahmed fears regaining memory — while the disciple fears his master’s decline may unleash an ancient evil.

A FILM BY Yanis Koussim | France / Algeria / Qatar / Saudi Arabia, 2025, 89’ | Sales: alpha violet | world premiere | debut feature film