Movies on relationships and wars at the Red Sea Film Festival

Relationships between fathers and sons are often fraught with tension, even animosity, contrasting with those between men and their daughters.

- GAUTAMAN BHASKARAN

The answers to these are complex and will probably need an entire book to explain. But the fifth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival had a title that got this sailing smoothly. Titled My Father's Scent, helmed by Mohamed Siam from Egypt, the work confines itself largely indoors in a gripping, dramatic narrative.

Played over a single night, the movie focuses on an old man, suffering from a terminal illness, who comes back home after a long stint at the hospital. In fact, he had been in a coma, but managed to wake up.