Back in December, Feathers screened at the first edition of Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, the film previously competed at the Feature Films Competition of Carthage Film Festival (JCC), where it won 4 awards; the Golden Tanit (The festival’s grand prize), Golden Tanit for the Best First Feature Film (Tahar Cheriaa Award) for Omar El Zohairy, Best Screenplay for El Zohairy and Ahmed Amer, and Best Female Performance for Demyana Nassar who played the leading role in the film.
Prior to that, the film won El Gouna Star for the Best Arab Narrative Film at El Gouna Film Festival. Moreover, Omar El Zohairy received Variety’s MENA Talent of the Year Award 2021, during the same festival.
Featherscreates a fantasy world following the life of a submissive wife fully dedicated to her husband and children while being stuck in the daily, repetitive, mundane chores. A sudden interesting change of events occurs when a magic trick goes wrong at her 4-year-old son's birthday party, turning her husband into a chicken.
Now that the magician failed to undo the trick, the mother is forced to take control over her family and call all the shots. While looking out for her family, and trying to turn back her husband, the submissive woman rises up to the challenge and goes through a tough and quite absurd transformation.
Landing its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Grand Prize of the International Critics' Week, and the FIPRESCI award for the best first feature in Cannes’s parallel sections. It then received a number of other prestigious awards, including Special Mention at the New Horizons International Film Festival in Poland and Best Film at the Roberto Rossellini Awards of Pingyao International Film Festival, China.
The film is produced by the French producers Juliette Lepoutre and Pierre Menahem (Still Moving), and co-produced by Mohamed Hefzy (Film Clinic) and Shahinaz El Akkad (Lagoonie Film Production), as well as Derk-Jan Warrink and Koji Nelissen (Kepler Film), Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Heretic), and Verona Meier. MENA region distribution rights are handled by Film Clinic Indie Distribution.
