Hayy Cinema | Othman (2022)

Program overview

Director: Khaled Zaidan Country: Saudi Year: 2022 Language: Arabic Othman, a security guard at one of the government hospital’s parking lot entrance gates,lives in harmony with his cousin Fahd. However, soon after, events change, shaking Othman out of his complacency and forcing him to confront reality. Khaled Zidan Feature and documentary film director and cinematographer, co-founder of Bright Frame Productions. Winner and explainer in a number of film festivals, He directed the short film “Life of Life”, which is nominated for competition in the Student Track at the 2019 Saudi Film Festival and the winner of the 2019 Jazan Award for Creativity and the Festigius International Award for Best Young Film Maker, Then the film “Hawas”, which won the Best Second Documentary Film Award at the Saudi Film Festival 2020 and the candidate at the Malmö Festival in Sweden 2022, and recently Othman’s feature film, which was nominated for competition in the official competition at the Saudi Film...