Blackout

Short Film - 2025
Directed By: Ahmed Moustafa El-Zoghby
Written By: Ahmed Moustafa El-Zoghby


Crew:
  • Written & Directed by: Ahmed Moustafa ElZoghby
  • Produced by: Hind Metwalli
  • Co-Producers: Safei Eldin Mahmoud, Baho Bakhsh, Mohamed Hefzy, Ali Elarabi, Ahmed Amer, sherif fathy, Ibrahim Elnaggary, Mostafa El Kashef
  • Cinematography: Ibrahim El Naggary
  • Editor: Sara Abdallah
  • Production Designer: Shaimaa Magdy
  • Costume Designer: Reem El Adl
  • Sound Designer & Mixer: Abdalrahman Mahmoud
  • Production Sound Mixer: Moustafa Shaaban Abdelhamid
  • Colorist: Sherif Fathy
  • Assistant Directors: Alsharif Ashour Mansour, Moamen Hegazy, Mo Gohary, Ahmed Yousef, Ghada Hesham, Ali Sabour
  • Poster Designed by: Ghada Hesham
Synopsis:
It’s the Eid holiday. We’re in an apartment building that is owned and lived in by three generations of a very conservative family. When the elderly grandfather gets sick, his daughters believe that his illness is because of bad luck brought on by a young woman who rents an apartment in the building. Mohamed, the grandson of the sick man, has a crush on this young woman. But when the young woman comes home in the middle of the night, bringing a man who she’s taking up to her apartment, Mohamed and the women decide to punish her for her “impure” and “scandalous” ways.

Festivals:
  • Tampere Film Festival "The International Competition of the 55th Edition" - 2025 - Finland


Stills:
Blackout 1
Blackout 2