Mohamed Sultan
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Biography
Mohamed is a Bahraini filmmaker expected to graduate from MICA's Filmmaking MFA program in 2021. His short film, Rug, is a psychological thriller about a mysterious rug that threatens to tear a superstitious family apart. Moe has assisted on several other productions, including The Veil Between (2nd AC, 2020), FLICK (DP, 2020), and Window (1st AD, 2019). His biggest artistic influences include Michael Haneke, Werner Herzog, Shōhei Imamura, Naguib Mahfouz, Ingmar Bergman, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, among others.
Known For
En route to an audition, aspiring actress Leila stops at a motel and hooks up with one of the locals. After swallowing a weed edible, she is flooded with paranoia and insecurity about her physical appearance as a transwoman. To make matters worse, everywhere she turns she sees the apparition of her biggest tormentor. Will she summon the courage to vanquish the demons of her past once and for all?
Dreams Of My Father
A psychological thriller about a mysterious rug threatening to tear a superstitious family apart.
Rug
Humaid, struggling with psychological issues that prevent him from interacting with the world, finds an unexpected way to cope with his problems without resolving them.