For Sarra, a middle-class girl from Tunis, everything seems to be going as her mother planned: she is taking sewing lessons and she is soon to be married to a good boy. But Sarra is hiding a dangerous plan with which she hopes to escape her current life. Best Short, FESPACO, 2019

Black Mamba

A free-spirited young girl, in Lamu struggles to live out her unique dream of swimming in the ocean, against local customs and an arranged upper-class marriage.&nbsp;Does Subria have courage to take her dream on, against all odds? Best Picture, Kalasha International Film and TV Awards, 2018

Subira

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