The Balad of Mamelouk

Original title: سراب

Directed by Abdelhafidh Bouassida

Mamluk is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to save the king from a fatal trap, and as a reward, the king offers him the amount of land he can mark off by walking around in one day but he must return to the starting point before sunset.