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In a single night, thirteen-year-old Hana braves the harsh city streets after her mother is humiliated in public by a shop owner who scammed her, determined to reclaim her dignity.
In a family made up of a mother and her daughter, Hana, a thirteen-year-old girl, is forced to face the world after her mother is humiliated and threatened with a knife inside a shop where she sells the crochet tablecloths she makes, following a confrontation with the shop owner, Azza, after being scammed. When their relatives fail to help them, Hana takes on the responsibility and goes out at night to sell the tablecloths herself to earn some money. Between rejection, violence and fear, Hana comes face to face with a merciless city that fuels the anger inside her, driving her back to Azza and her thugs in search of revenge for her mother.

Credits

Director
Khaled Moeit
Screenwriter
Khaled Moeit
Producer
Moustafa Elbarbari
Production Company
Cairo Films, Hand Print Films

About the Director

Khaled Moeit
Khaled Moeit is a film director and editor from Port Said, Egypt. His latest short film as a director, ‘Zizou’ (2025), premiered at Doha Film Festival and received a Special Mention for Best Performance. The film also premiered in the international competition at the 48th Clermont-Ferrand ISFF. Moeit also edited ‘Souad’ (2020), which was an official selection at the 73rd Cannes Film Festival and t

Producers

Moustafa Elbarbari

Moustafa Elbarbari is an impact-driven film producer working between Egypt and Canada, and the founder of Cairo Films. His current projects include What I Owe to My Mother, a short fiction film that has received a production grant from the Doha Film Institute, and Occupy Toronto, a short documentary in post-production examining student activism and anti-Palestinian racism in Canada. Moustafa was selected for the inaugural Impact Lab and the Beirut–Locarno Industry Academy, and is part of the team behind TIFF: The Market at the Toronto International Film Festival. He holds a Master of Digital Media from Toronto Metropolitan University.

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