15 Jul Winners Announced at the Amman International Film Festival – Awal Film 2025
IEFTA awarded their €6,000 cash award for an Arab project in post-production to “You Don’t Die Two Times” (Algeria, Tunisia, Germany, France) at this year’s Amman International Film Festival – Awal Film 2025 directed by Ager Oueslati, and produced by Raouf Oueslati.
The film is about one night when a strange dream wakes Gift—could it be a sign of a foretold death? Embarking on a perilous journey to Europe, this adaptation of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead offers an intimate portrait of her odyssey.
Ager Oueslati
DIRECTOR
Ager Oueslati is a French-Algerian-Tunisian journalist, director and photographer. She graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme Pro Lille-Montpellier (ESJ-PRO), and since then she worked as a journalist reporter around africa and the middle east. She directed her first short documentary film, Exilées, in September 2019. In 2021, she founded Taswir production in Algeria, a film production company she co-directs with her brother Raouf Oueslati and they produce together, her next documentary film, “You Don’t Die Two Times”, is scheduled for release in 2026.
Raouf Oueslati
PRODUCER
Raouf Oueslati is a lawyer, Business and Compliance in the private sector, and associate producer of “You Don’t Die Two Times”. He graduated from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, as well as in Economic and Social Administration, he initiated his career with the Paris Saint-Germain in Paris, before going international and joining first PayPal Inc. in Dublin (IE), then Mollie B.V, and Bunq B.V. in Amsterdam (NL), and today at MoonPay B.V. (Amsterdam – NL) and Taswir Edition (Algiers – DZ).