Section
Original title
Khadiga
Synopsis
Khadiga, a young 18-year-old mother, ends up alone with her new-born baby, as her husband has gone to work in a city a long way away. One day, like many others, as she walks in the chaos of the Cairo streets, she feels increasingly uncomfortable in the environment surrounding her.
Cast
Malak Tarek, Fatima Fawzi, Zizi Moustafa, Ayman Abdelaziz
Films Distribution
Lights On
Production
Red Star Films, Bonanza Films
Editing
Morad Mostafa, Mohamed Mamdouh
Cinematography
Mostafa El Kashef
Editing
Mohamed Mamdouh
Language
Arabic
Subtitles
English, Italian
Premiere
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Main awards
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Biography
Morad is an Egyptian Filmmaker, born in Cairo in 1988. He worked in several independent films and collaborated as an Executive Director for Souad that was in the official selection in Cannes Film Festival 2020. Morad is an alumni of the Berlinale Talents Campus and Locarno Academy. He wrote and directed three short films and all of them were selected in Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in three consecutive years and were screened in more than 300 festivals worldwide and won several awards. His latest short film I promise you paradise is selected in Festival de Cannes “Critics' Week” 2023. Morad is currently developing his first feature film Aisha can’t fly away anymore in the Cinéfondation residence of the Cannes Film Festival, as well as at the Torino Film Lab and the Rotterdam Lab.
Filmography
2023 – I Promise You Paradise, sf
2021 – Khadiga, sf
2020 – What We don't know about Mariam, sf
2020 – Henet Ward, sf