‘Safe Exit’ Director Mohammed Hammad on Staying True to His Vision: ‘I Need to Be Free as a Filmmaker’

‘Safe Exit’ Director Mohammed Hammad on Staying True to His Vision: ‘I Need to Be Free as a Filmmaker’ hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 16, 2026 8:36am PT ‘Safe Exit’ Director Mohammed Hammad on Staying True to His Vision: ‘I Need to Be Free as a Filmmaker’ By Jay Weissberg Plus Icon Jay Weissberg Latest ‘Back to Buenos Aires’ Review: Marco Bechis’ Return to the Screen Covers Similar Ground to Earlier Works but is Only Fitfully Effective 1 month ago ‘One Minute to Midnight’ Review: A Stellar Cast Deliver Interesting but Overly Preachy Disquisitions on the Changing Nature of Male-Female Relations 1 month ago ‘NAZA’ Review: Two of the ‘No Other Land’ Filmmakers Deliver a More Devastating Exposé of Israeli Genocidal Policy, This Time in Gaza 1 month ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Mohammed Hammad ’s “Safe Exit” received an Atlas Prize for Post-production at the 2025 Atlas Workshops of the Marrakech Film Festival before making its debut in the Panorama section of the 2026 Berlinale. The film is now poised for its national debut at the El Gouna Film Festival , where it’s competing in the Feature Narrative section.

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The film is Hammad’s long-awaited follow-up to his debut “Withered Green,” which bowed at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival and went on to win the best director prize at the Dubai Film Festival, as well as multiple awards closer to home in Cairo. Related Stories Joe Rogan Renews Nine-Figure Spotify Deal Apple’s Latest AirPods Max Headphones Get Rare $120 Discount for Prime Day Hammad speaks to Variety about the challenges of getting his second film produced, and the satisfaction of screening in El Gouna.

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Popular on Variety How have you negotiated the difficulties of getting an independent film made in Egypt now? “Safe Exit” is completely self-funded.

We formed a new production company, Pariedolia Productions, and now we’re trying to distribute the film through that company, which is a challenge. We’ve chosen this model because many studios in Egypt tend to avoid this kind of film, especially given the topics it covers.

Even getting the necessary permissions to shoot the film was very hard. But together with my producer Kholoud Saad I knew I needed to make this film, just like we made “Withered Green.” What about your co-producers?

The main co-producer is Dora Bouchoucha with Nomadis Images, from Tunisia. And Ibrahim El-Battout, one of the godfathers of independent cinema in Egypt, is also a co-producer.

Ibrahim was with me from the beginning, also as an adviser, and I trust him completely. We worked on pre-production together, in conjunction with Kholoud; Ibrahim is one of Egypt’s leading independent filmmakers, along with Khairy Beshara and Yousry Nasrallah, and he was with us throughout the shooting, every day.

“Withered Green” premiered in 2014. Can you talk about the challenges you’ve faced getting “Safe Exit” off the ground?

After “Withered Green.” I began work on a film called “Bullets & Bread.” It was a big project, a road movie, with Film Clinic as one of the producers. But after I finished the script [which received the Red Sea Lodge Award for an Arab Project in 2020], and I was scouting locations, the film was rejected by the censors.

So my lovely project came to a halt after four years of work. After that, I couldn’t write.

But I called the great director Daoud Abdel Sayed, and he told me, start another project, write another film. At first, I told him, it’s too hard, I’m not good now.

But after a month or so, I began to write “Safe Exit,” which took about another year to finish the script. But you’re not playing safe with “Safe

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