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Fresh Faces: Morad Mostafa Debuts With ‘Aisha Can’t Fly Away’ in Un Certain Regard: ‘I Wanted to Talk About Our Society Through Non-Egyptian Characters’
Debuts With ‘Aisha Can’t Fly Away’ in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Debuting feature helmer Morad Mostafa is proud to be representing Egypt with his Un Certain Regard-selected “ Aisha Can’t Fly Away,” about the fraught existence of a lonely South Sudanese care-worker in Cairo. As someone who spent his childhood years in Ain Shams, a district of Cairo that gradually transformed into a Sudanese enclave experiencing high crime and gang warfare, Mostafa is well aware of the problems that the new arrivals face. Their clients are assigned by unscrupulous local agencies that exploit the women’s labor with long hours and poor wages and keep them in servitude by confiscating their personal documents such as passports and identity cards.
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