Your Dark Hair Ihsan by Tala Hadid
Morocco/USA
14 min | 2005
The online presentation of films from „Arab Shorts 2009” on this site ended by 31 December 2011.
Your Dark Hair Ihsan follows a young Moroccan man who returns to his native city in Northern Morocco having received a phone call informing him that his mother has died. Hadid cuts between this contemporary journey and childhood scenes of the boy and his widowed mother, Ihsan, as she tries to negotiate a better life for him.
About the Filmmaker
Tala Hadid was born in 1974 in London to a Moroccan mother and an Iraqi father. She coproduced and directed her first full length film while studying as an undergraduate at Brown University. In 2001, she directed Windsleepers, a film set in St. Petersburg. In 2005 Hadid completed her thesis film, Your Dark Hair Ihsan. The film, shot in Northern Morocco and in the Rif Mountains, was awarded the 2005 Cinecolor/Kodak Prize and in June 2005 received a Student Academy Award. In February 2006 the film won the Panorama Best short Film Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Tala Hadid was born in 1974 in London to a Moroccan mother and an Iraqi father. She coproduced and directed her first full length film while studying as an undergraduate at Brown University. In 2001, she directed Windsleepers, a film set in St. Petersburg. In 2005 Hadid completed her thesis film, Your Dark Hair Ihsan. The film, shot in Northern Morocco and in the Rif Mountains, was awarded the 2005 Cinecolor/Kodak Prize and in June 2005 received a Student Academy Award. In February 2006 the film won the Panorama Best short Film Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
