Synopsis
Eighteen-year-old Khadiga lives alone with her baby after her husband leaves to work in a distant city. On an ordinary day, as she makes her way through the hustle and bustle of the Cairo streets to visit her relatives, she feels misunderstood and lost as never before.
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- Co-production : La Belle Affaire Productions
- Foreign production company : Bonanza Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Lights On
Full credits (14)
- Screenwriters : Morad Mostafa, Mohamed Mamdouh
- Director of Photography : Mostafa El Kashef
- Assistant director : Fatima Fawzi
- Editor : Mohamed Mamdouh
- Sound Recordist : Mostafa Shaaban
- Costume designer : Reem El Adi
- Foreign producer : Sawsan Yusuf
- Line Producer : Islam El Dakhakhny
- Co-producers : Jérôme Blesson, Jean-Loup Pochoy, Flore Cavigneaux
- Production manager : Amina Allam
- Sound Editor : Mostafa Shaaban
- Production Designer : Eman Elalby
- Grader : Sherif Fathy
- Sound Mixer : Gilles Bénardeau
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama, Thriller
- Themes : Motherhood, Solitude/loneliness, Murder
- Production language : Arabic
- Coproducer countries : Egypt (70.0%), France (30.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Egypt, France)
- Production year : 2021
- Runtime : 19 min 55 seconds
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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