It is the first feature-length work of Al-Zuhairi, who also contributed to writing it.
Egyptian film Feathers by director Omar Al-Zuhairi has won the Best Film prize at the fifth edition of the Joburg Film Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Feathers is an Egyptian-French-Dutch-Greek production and Al-Zuhairi’s first feature-length work.
“Feathers,” also written by Zohairy, was the winner of Cannes Critics’ Week in 2021 and bagged awards at the El-Gouna Film Festival, Carthage Film Festival and Pingyao Film Festival, as well as last year’s Rabat International Author Film Festival.
The 115-minute film tells the story of a mother who dedicates her life to her husband and children. When a magic trick goes wrong at her four-year-old son’s birthday party, an avalanche of coincidental absurdities befalls the family. The magician turns her husband, the authoritarian father, into a chicken.
Feathers stars Demyana Nassar, Samy Bassiouny, Fady Mina Fawzy and Abo Sefen Nabil Wesa. It was co-written with Ahmed Amer and co-produced by Juliette Lepoutre and Pierre Menahem through Still Moving, in partnership with Lagoonie Film Production, as well as Shahinaz Al-Akkad.
