“Completely happy Birthday,” a gem out of the Tribeca Movie Competition, has an actual probability to change into the primary movie chosen by Egypt to make it onto the Oscar shortlist for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic, and IndieWire has an unique have a look at the movie’s trailer.
The drama about an eight-year-old woman determined to share a birthday want along with her finest good friend Nelly, despite circumstances which might be far too difficult for youngsters their age, serves because the directorial debut of Sarah Goher, who most lately was a consulting producer on the Marvel Cinematic Universe restricted sequence “Moon Knight” starring Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke.
Along with profitable the awards for Greatest Worldwide Narrative Characteristic, Greatest Screenplay in an Worldwide Narrative Characteristic, and the Nora Ephron Award, meant to honor an distinctive feminine filmmaker who represents the spirit and imaginative and prescient of the legendary filmmaker and author, at Tribeca this 12 months, “Completely happy Birthday” is produced by Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx.
“Our hope is that an increasing number of folks will get to see this highly effective movie. It’s masterful storytelling by a recent new voice in movie,” stated Foxx and his producing companion Datari Turner, president of Foxxhole productions, to IndieWire through assertion. A few of their firm’s current successes embody twin documentaries “Quantity One on the Name Sheet,” Netflix blockbuster “Again in Motion,” Sundance favourite “Luther: By no means Too A lot,” and “They Cloned Tyrone” from debut function director Juel Taylor.
“Completely happy Birthday” was written by Goher and her frequent collaborator Mohamed Diab, whose personal movie “Conflict” was submitted by Egypt for Oscar consideration in 2016. Additionally it is produced by Ahmed El Desouky for SkyLimit. The movie relies on the director’s expertise visiting her grandmother in Egypt, and tackles the topics of sophistication, empathy, and the delicate bonds that join us, by the eyes of a younger home employee in Cairo. It has additionally earned the movie the Viewers Award for the Thoughts the Hole part on the Mill Valley Movie Competition, and the Grand Narrative Prize on the Heartland Movie Competition.
Whereas Egypt has been submitting movies for consideration within the Greatest Worldwide Characteristic class since 1958, beginning with Youssef Chahine’s “Cairo Station,” which is within the Criterion Assortment, “Completely happy Birthday” could be the primary movie from the North African nation to make the shortlist, ought to all go in its favor come December.
Watch the trailer for “Completely happy Birthday,” a IndieWire unique, under.
“Completely happy Birthday” premiered on the 2025 Tribeca Movie Competition. It’s presently searching for U.S. distribution.
