BINT WERDAN

BINT WERDAN

 BINT WERDAN Kuwait, Sudan, Qatar, Egypt I 2020 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 14 minWorld premiere A woman with depression struggles to keep up appearances in front of her chirpy and driven office colleagues. An encounter with a dying cockroach in...

COLOR BLIND

COLOR BLIND

 COLOR BLIND Egypt, United Kingdom I 2019 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 11 minColor Blind depicts an encounter between a man and a woman in a Victorian cemetery in Bristol. They come from the same place – Egypt – but apart from that, they have almost...

WONDER BOX

WONDER BOX

  WONDER BOX Egypt I 2020 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 90 minInternational premiere Four simultaneous but different tales take place during one night in Cairo. These separate events depict relentless attempts of the characters to find balance...

HEART, YOU DESE…

HEART, YOU DESE…

 HEART, YOU DESERVE THAT! Egypt I 2020 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 29 minInternational premiere A film about the social pressure that unmarried women over thirty face. The director, who is 35 and a single woman, conducts interviews in a car, during...

YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY

YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY

  YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar I 2019 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 105 minSwedish premiere Sudan. When Muzamil was born, a prophecy by the village holy man predicted that he would die at 20 years old. Muzamil’s...

LET’S TALK

LET’S TALK

  LET'S TALK Egypt I 2019 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 95 minSwedish premiere A mother and her daughter explore together the trajectory of four generations of women from their family, an Egyptian family from the Levant where life and cinema have...

AS YOU CAN SEE

AS YOU CAN SEE

 AS YOU CAN SEE Egypt I 2019 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 8 minSwedish premiere Can the lines in a hand hold stories? What memories do the grooves store? Ghada invites her mother to reflect on her life while taking us on a poetic exploration into...

THE TRAP

THE TRAP

 THE TRAP Egypt, Germany I 2019 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 20 minNordic premiere In the peculiar set up of a deserted and run-down Egyptian seaside resort in wintertime, a young unmarried couple arrives to make love. The power dynamic between them...

WHEN WE’RE BORN

WHEN WE’RE BORN

  WHEN WE'RE BORN Egypt I 2019 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 110 min Nordic premiere Our life paths are influenced by the circumstances we are born into. This film presents the separate stories of three different characters who face personal...

WEDDING DRESS

WEDDING DRESS

 WEDDING DRESS Egypt I 2019 I Arabic dialogue with English subtitles l 7 minNordic premiere A young, unmarried woman in her early thirties works in a wedding dress atelier.  While working on a wedding dress for a client, things take another turn and she suddenly...