Khadiga (19:55)

NARRATIVE FEATURE
by Morad Mostafa

1:47 pm
SLC - ROOM 115

Description:  Khadiga, young mother of 16 lives alone with her baby after her husband left for work in a remote city; in an ordinary day she makes her way through the hustle of Cairo streets to do some visits where she feels uncomfortable with the surroundings.

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Filmmaker Bio: 

Morad is an Egyptian Filmmaker, born 1988 in Cairo, He studied the filmmaking at Cinema Palace in Egypt and then started his career in the film industry as an Assistant Director in various independent Films. And he collaborated as an Executive Director in "Souad" feature film which was in the official selection in Cannes Film Festival 2020 and Berlinale. He wrote and directed two short films "Henet Ward" and "What we don't know about Mariam" both had their world premieres in "Clermont-Ferrand" and has been selected in other major festivals (BFI London - Palm Springs - Busan - Thessaloniki - Stockholm - Karlovy Vary - Valencia - Shanghai - Buenos Aires - Cinemed Montpellier - FIFF Namur- Durban - Cairo ) and has won more than 30 international awards.

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