Morad Mostafa is an Egyptian filmmaker born in Cairo. He worked as an assistant director in several independent films and collaborated as an executive director in the Egyptian film Souad, which was officially selected to participate in the 2020 Cannes Film Festival and the 2021 Berlinale. Morad wrote and directed two short films Ward’s Henna Party and What We Don’t Know About Mariam; both had their world premieres in the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and were selected in other major festivals and won more than 30 international awards.