I Can Smell a Rat
Maribel, 10, is surprised when her drama teacher tells her that she has to play Hamlet in the school play just 2 days before the show, as she is the only one available after the girl who was playing Hamlet got sick and won’t make it. Maribel faces the biggest decision of her life: what to do when she has never taken a part in a play before, other than being a set decoration. She goes home and spends the scariest night of her life with all her fears coming to life.
Egyptian filmmaker, who started as a pharmacist then moved to filmmaking where he studied at the New York Film Academy in 2013 and graduated in 2022 from the Jesuit Cairo Film school. In 2023 he founded Magic Eye Productions to help a new wave of independent filmmakers in Egypt and Africa.