Sabeel by Khalid Al-Mahmood
UAE
20 min | 2010
The Film
Two small boys live with their sick grandmother in the mountains of the UAE. Tending their vegetables and then selling produce on the road, they have to earn enough money to buy medicine for her. This poignant film depicts their lives and the world in which they live. ‘Sabeel’ won the Second Prize in the Muhr Emirati Awards at the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) 2010.
The Filmmaker
Khalid Al-Mahmood was born in Abu Dhabi in 1976. He graduated from the University of Denver in Mass Communications. He has worked on several short films, and currently freelances in video and film production.
