The camera scans a landscape of bubbling, smoking pools of sulphur as if the gates of hell had opened underground. In a poem told through subtitles, the tragic narrator initiates us into his situation, like a mythological (anti)hero who has woken up to a really bad day. Raed Yassin’s ‘International Satan’s Day’ is a film that, with diabolical humor and sincere melancholy, gives new meaning to nature’s romantic motifs: ‘I fall broken like hope / and remain as such / a king of remorse and prince of wisdom’.