The Burdened

When Isra’a discovers she is expecting another baby amid the civil war in Yemen, she and her husband decide she should have an abortion. But this creates enormous difficulties – in their relationship and elsewhere. A moving story from an all-too-often forgotten crisis region.

• Amr GamalDirector
• Amr GamalWriter
• Mazen RefaatWriter
• Chen Ming-changOriginal Music Composer

• Khaled HamdanAhmed
• Abeer MohammedIsra’a
• Samah AlamraniMuna
• Awsam AbdulrahmanMuna
• Shahd AlgonfedyHend
• Saleem IslamAnwar
• Roaa Al-HamshariNouran
• Omar ElyasNawar
• Fatema AdulbqawiDr. Niveen
• Ruaida RubaihAhmed's Mother