The Awaited by Mohamed Mamdouh
Egypt
17 min | 2006
The online presentation of films from „Arab Shorts 2009” on this site ended by 31 December 2011.
The desire for a male child remains at the core of the minds and imaginations of all Arab families. What happens when this dream comes true and the mother herself begins to experience morphological transformations?
About the Filmmaker
Mohamed Mamdouh works as a director, screenwriter and producer. He is a self-taught director who is currently enrolled in the independent study programme at the High Cinema Institute. He is also an art critic and is a board member for the Association of Cinema Critics. He has written scripts and directed a number of documentary films for Al Jazeera Channel. Mamdouh has won the Abdel Hay Adeeb prize for scriptwriting for his script Angel Blood, and has directed two films: What’s to Come, a short independently produced fictional film (2006), and Less than an Hour, produced by the National Centre for cinema in 2009.
Mohamed Mamdouh works as a director, screenwriter and producer. He is a self-taught director who is currently enrolled in the independent study programme at the High Cinema Institute. He is also an art critic and is a board member for the Association of Cinema Critics. He has written scripts and directed a number of documentary films for Al Jazeera Channel. Mamdouh has won the Abdel Hay Adeeb prize for scriptwriting for his script Angel Blood, and has directed two films: What’s to Come, a short independently produced fictional film (2006), and Less than an Hour, produced by the National Centre for cinema in 2009.
