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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Production and distribution (3)
- 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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The year’s end celebrations are coming. Christmas : the tree, the dinner, the presents. Indian and Cowboy are expecting their presents eagerly. Overexcited by the organisation of the celebration, they fight and destroy the Yule log on which Horse was putting the last touch. Horse is livid and cancels the gifts from Santa Claus. How will they win back the favours of Horse and The Old Bearded Man? How will they retrieve their gifts ? For Indian and Cowboy begins a long, very long Christmas Eve.
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Future Film Festival in Bologna.
It was nominated for the 2015 César for Best Animated Short Film.
