Baraka

Name: Baraka
Director: Unknown
Genre: Drama
Released: 2019-01-10
Rating: 0

Jan 10, 2019Drama

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Saman lives in the Coptic district of Mokattam in Cairo.Every morning, he goes with his father to collect and sort rubbish and give food waste to their pigs.One day in April, the Egyptian military government orders the slaughter of all the pigs in Mokattam.Saman decides to go in search for pigs in Cairo.

Signature: Drama · Craft · Tension

The Nutevio profile

Nutevio DNA

How Baraka actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve core traits Nutevio tracks across every film and series.

Signature profile

Baraka reads strongest on Emotion, Wonder and Pace.

EmotionPresent6.8

How much it is designed to move you.

WonderPresent5.8

Scale, imagination and the sense of the extraordinary.

PacePresent5.2

How quickly the story moves scene to scene.

TensionPresent5.0

The sustained pressure it keeps you under.

DarknessPresent5.0

How bleak the tone and subject matter run.

HumourPresent5.0

How often it is genuinely funny, by design.

ActionPresent5.0

Physical momentum — chases, combat, set pieces.

MysteryPresent5.0

How much of the story is withheld and unravelled.

ComplexityPresent5.0

How much attention the structure and ideas demand.

RomancePresent5.0

How central love and intimacy are to the story.

FearPresent5.0

How much it is built to unsettle or frighten.

CraftLight4.5

Filmmaking quality — direction, writing and recognition.

Story overview

What It's About

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Saman lives in the Coptic district of Mokattam in Cairo. Every morning, he goes with his father to collect and sort rubbish and give food waste to their pigs. One day in April, the Egyptian military government orders the slaughter of all the pigs in Mokattam. Saman decides to go in search for pigs in Cairo. His journey is gradually transformed into a quest for identity.

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