
Festival / Official Selection 2018 / Fatima
OFFICIAL SELECTION 2018
Fatima
Shorts Programme 7
DIRECTOR : Imran Hamdulay
COUNTRY : South Africa
YEAR : 2017
TIME : 18 min
SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 7.45pm | Nu Metro 6, 15 Oct @ 2pm
SYNOPSIS
A devout woman defies her family’s wish to enter into an arranged marriage and suffers the tragic consequence as a result of her actions.



ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Imran Hamdulay is a writer, director & producer based in Cape Town. He has produced & directed numerous projects working between film & commercials. He currently has two short films on the festival circuit: ‘Brother’ & ‘Fatima’. The films were a co-production between Red Kimono Media (UK) and Black Crow Films (SA), with Fatima receiving support from the National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa. Brother has thus far won the Best Film, Best Director & Best Cinematography awards at the Moscow Shorts Festival. With both films selected as semi-finalists at the Los Angeles CineFest. His debut feature film, Of Virtue, in development with the National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa, was selected as a featured project at Durban Filmmart 2018 and will be produced by David Horler and Proper Film. Imran is a Berlinale Talents alumni and currently lectures directing at City Varsity School of Media & Creative Arts.