In a poignant exploration of resilience, an Egyptian artist confronts a challenging childhood and an unforgiving world, transforming his pain into powerful paintings that offer solace and inspiration to anyone grappling with life’s hardships.
Director Details
Saif El-Douh is an Egyptian director and writer born in Cairo, in 1999. After briefly attending the Faculty of Commerce at Ain Shams University, he left to pursue his passion for film at the Higher Institute of Cinema, where he is now in his fourth year majoring in directing. He began writing over five years ago, producing several screenplays and publishing his first story collection (On the Edge of Death), at the Cairo International Book Fair in 2022. His story (Friska) was shortlisted at the 2023 Creativity Festival. Saif has directed his first short documentary film, (141) in 2025.
