INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION

WHAT WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT MARIAM

Mariam goes to a public hospital with her husband and daughter, bleeding and suffering from a severe pain in her abdomen. After the medical examination things escalate between Mariam and her husband.

SHORTS O’CLOCK II, Saturday, March 5, at 17:00 GMT +2

English title:

What We Don’t Know About Mariam

Original title:

What We Don’t Know About Mariam

Director:

Morad Mostafa

Country:

Egypt

Genre:

Fiction

Year:

2021

Length:

25'

Dialogues:

Arabic

Subtitles:

EN, LT

Cast:

Doaa Ereiqat, Emad Ghoniem, Osama Abdallah, Noran Wageh

A quote for the film:

I won't let you go.

Selective list of festivals and awards:

World Premiere Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival 2021, Mecal - Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival 2021, Third Prize International Competition

Directors’ bio:

Morad Mostafa is an Egyptian Director, born in 1988 in Cairo, Egypt. He studied Film directing in “Cinema Palace” in 2008 and at other filmmaking workshops. He has worked in the film industry since 2010 as an assistant director with several directors as “Mohamed Diab", "Hala Khalil" in “Nawara”, and "Sherif Elbendary" in “Ali the Goat and Ibrahim”. In 2019 He directed and wrote his first short film "Henet Ward" that had its world premiere at "Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival" in the International Competition, and was selected for the first edition of Film O’Clock International Festival, in 2021.