The Emirati film “Misk” by Hamid Al Suwaidi was selected to participate for the second time in the 10th edition of the Jagran Mobile Film Festival, during his tour in Mumbai, India, from 26 to 29 September. Last July.
The Jagran Film Festival is the largest mobile film festival in the world, aims to create a culture of appreciation of cinemas, and is a serious attempt to create a platform that brings together film audiences from all over the world.
Misk won the Best Emirati Film Award at the Al Ain Film Festival, and recently participated in the Taza International Diversity Film Festival in Morocco. It was also screened at the Emirates Airlines Short Film Festival and at the Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi. The film saw its premiere at the 15th International Film Festival. The Sahara in Morocco.
The film revolves around Ahmed, who gives up his promising work in the management of museums to take care of his ailing father, and devotes himself to the management of his family's stagnant work in the field of perfume, to become after that sacrifice and divorce also a man resentful of human nature, and this change affects his relationship with his isolated child Abdulrahman, an adult Over time, it turns out that the father and son do not understand each other, as if they had their own language. Ahmed doubts the goal behind his sister's return from her trip around the world, where she is believed to have returned to her share of inheritance upon the death of their father. His husband surprised everyone by filing a lawsuit Of him, to prevent him from seeing his son, claiming she did not want her son to see the slow death of his grandfather.
The film is directed and written by Hamid Al Suwaidi, starring Mohammed Ahmed, Suhail Al Junaibi, Daghan Juma and Manahil Al Awadhi.