2025 Three Rivers Film Festival

Happy Birthday

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Happy Birthday
Eight-year-old maid Toha goes to great lengths to ensure that Nelly, the daughter of her wealthy employer, has a successful birthday party.
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Eight-year-old maid Toha goes to great lengths to ensure that her best friend Nelly, the daughter of her wealthy employer, has a successful birthday party in this poignant debut feature exploring classism in modern-day Cairo.


Director Sarah Goher is an Egyptian-American writer and producer who has worked on Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight (2022). Happy Birthday, her directorial debut, premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival, where Sarah won three awards: Best International Feature, Best International Screenplay, and the Nora Ephron award for a distinguished female

filmmaker.


This is Egypt’s submission to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature.

  • Year
    2025
  • Runtime
    91 minutes
  • Language
    Arabic
  • Country
    Egypt
  • Director
    Sarah Goher
  • Screenwriter
    Sarah Goher, Mohamed Diab
  • Producer
    Ahmed Al-Desouki, Ahmed Badawy, Jamie Foxx, Datari Turner, Ahmed Abbas
  • Executive Producer
    Mohamed Diab
  • Cast
    Nelly Karim, Doha Ramadan, Sherif Salama
  • Editor
    Ahmed Hafez
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