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MY FATHER AND QADDAFI releases poster ahead of Biennale premiere
28 August 2025
Here’s a first look at the poster for MY FATHER AND QADDAFI, with the logo for the 82nd Biennale Film Festival — where it’s set to premiere on August 29th — emblazoned in the middle. The film will also be distributed in Arab-speaking territories by MAD Solutions’ releasing arm, MAD Distribution, and sold in all other territories by the company’s film sales company, MAD World.
In this film, a daughter unravels the disappearance of her father, the opposition leader to Libya’s dictator for 40 years, Muammar Qaddafi, and pieces together her mother’s 19-year search to find him. Without any memory of her father, she tries to reconnect with him and reconcile with her Libyan identity.
In the poster itself, we get a monochrome take of the family itself with Jihan’s father as the centerpiece.
A US and Libyan production, MY FATHER AND QADDAFI is produced by Jihan K and Mohamed Soueid, executive produced by Dave Guenette and Sol Guy, co-produced by Andreas Rocksén and William Johansson Kalén of Laika Film, with Jayson Jackson and Mohamed Siam serving as consulting producers and Shahla Karkouti Elms as associate producer.
Featuring Jihan K, Baha Sobhi Al Omary, and the late Rashid Mansur Kikhia as main characters, the 88-minute documentary is lensed by Micah Walker and Mike McLaughlin, and edited by Alessandro Dordoni, Chloe Lambourne (of the Oscar-nominated FOR SAMA), and Nicole Halova.
Throughout its production, the film received funding from several international sources, including Quiet, the Doha Film Institute, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, International Documentary Association, CineGouna Funding, International Media Support, Hot Docs-Blue Ice Docs Fund, Malmö Arab Film Festival, and the Swedish Film Institute. It also participated in several labs, including Close Up Lab, DFI QUMRA, Durban Filmmart, Between Women Filmmakers Caravan Consultancy, Medimed Euro-Med Doc Market & Pitching Forum, and First Cut Lab.
Jihan K earned her BA in International and Comparative Politics, concentrating on Human Rights, Philosophy, and International Law, from the American University of Paris. She holds an MA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, focusing on art education and storytelling. In 2012, her article ‘Libya, My Father, and I’ was published in Kalimat Magazine: Arab Thought and Culture. Jihan K is dedicated to exploring how free expression can serve as a vehicle for empowerment and understanding.
In this film, a daughter unravels the disappearance of her father, the opposition leader to Libya’s dictator for 40 years, Muammar Qaddafi, and pieces together her mother’s 19-year search to find him. Without any memory of her father, she tries to reconnect with him and reconcile with her Libyan identity.
In the poster itself, we get a monochrome take of the family itself with Jihan’s father as the centerpiece.
A US and Libyan production, MY FATHER AND QADDAFI is produced by Jihan K and Mohamed Soueid, executive produced by Dave Guenette and Sol Guy, co-produced by Andreas Rocksén and William Johansson Kalén of Laika Film, with Jayson Jackson and Mohamed Siam serving as consulting producers and Shahla Karkouti Elms as associate producer.
Featuring Jihan K, Baha Sobhi Al Omary, and the late Rashid Mansur Kikhia as main characters, the 88-minute documentary is lensed by Micah Walker and Mike McLaughlin, and edited by Alessandro Dordoni, Chloe Lambourne (of the Oscar-nominated FOR SAMA), and Nicole Halova.
Throughout its production, the film received funding from several international sources, including Quiet, the Doha Film Institute, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, International Documentary Association, CineGouna Funding, International Media Support, Hot Docs-Blue Ice Docs Fund, Malmö Arab Film Festival, and the Swedish Film Institute. It also participated in several labs, including Close Up Lab, DFI QUMRA, Durban Filmmart, Between Women Filmmakers Caravan Consultancy, Medimed Euro-Med Doc Market & Pitching Forum, and First Cut Lab.
Jihan K earned her BA in International and Comparative Politics, concentrating on Human Rights, Philosophy, and International Law, from the American University of Paris. She holds an MA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, focusing on art education and storytelling. In 2012, her article ‘Libya, My Father, and I’ was published in Kalimat Magazine: Arab Thought and Culture. Jihan K is dedicated to exploring how free expression can serve as a vehicle for empowerment and understanding.
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