Musk
Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage
Humaid Alsuwaidi / Feature Narrative / United Arab Emirates, Qatar / 2017 / 90 min / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: Drama
Synopsis
After giving up a promising career in museum management to attend to his ailing father, Ahmed spends his days managing the family’s dying perfume business. This sacrifice and his divorce have made him cynical about human nature and this manifests itself in his relationship with Abdulrahman, his aloof 12-year-old boy. Father and son do not see eye-to-eye, and it is as though they speak in different languages. Ahmed is also rather suspicious that his free-spirited sister is back from her travels in Europe to ensure she gets a nice chunk of the inheritance. Suddenly, Ahmed’s ex-wife sues to deny him visitation rights, claiming she doesn’t want her son to see his grandfather dying slowly.
Credits
- Director
- Humaid Alsuwaidi
- Screenwriter
- Humaid Alsuwaidi
- Producer
- Humaid Alsuwaidi
- Production Company
- 1893 Productions
- Production Company
- 1893 Productions
About the Director
Humaid Alsuwaidi was born in Abu Dhabi in 1984. After working in a traditional office job for a few years, he enrolled in the New York Film Academy in 2010. Upon graduating, he worked on a number of short films, both on set and in post-production. ‘Abdullah’ (2015), his directorial debut, had its premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival. It tells the story of an Emirati boy who loves music while growing up in a very conservative family.