‘Mother of the Unborn’ Screening at Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015

Since 2001, Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya has promoted Independent Lebanese and Arab films, and encouraged young talents to lend their imagination to the big screen.

About the Movie
In a forgotten corner of Egypt lives a woman who is yearning for a child. Having no option but to live on the fringe of her community because of her infertility, Hanan lingers between a dream that is slowly slipping away and her struggle to find a place where she belongs. While everything that surrounds her bustles with fertility and mortality, she wonders how to give meaning to the time that she has in between.

About the Director
Born in Egypt in 1984, Nadine Salib studied filmmaking. She started as an assistant director in commercials, then worked as a first assistant and script supervisor in many short and long independent films. In 2011, she participated in several filmmaking workshops where she directed her first short documentary, Fagr (Dawn) which was shown in many festivals and won many prices. Um Ghayeb is her first feature.