Shams must live in the shadows. At 23, life is steeped in secrecy and unimaginable pain. Stripped of the right to exist, Shams is shunned by true love and rejected by society’s rigid norms and expectations.
Cast
- Amina Ben Ismail
- Mohammed Mrad
- Sana Ben Cheikh Larbi
- Aymen Ben Hmida
Crew
- Screenwriters: Nada Mezni Hafaiedh and Pascal Jousse
- DOP: Mohamed Magrahoui
- Editor: Noura Nefzi
Original Title: Al Mabeyn
Production Company(ies):
- Leyth Production
- Hamzeh Mysthique Films
Producer(s):
- Slim Hafaiedh
- Ziad Hamzeh
- Warsaw International Film Festival, Poland
- Rotterdam Arab Film Festival, Netherlands
- Alexandria Mediterranean Film Festival
- Geneva International Oriental Film Festival
- Beirut International Women’s Festival, Lebanon
- Best Film at the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival
- Best Film at the Alexandria Mediterranean Film Festival
- FIFOG d'Or Winner, Official Competition at the Geneva International Oriental Film Festival