Winner: FIPRESCI Prize for Best International First Feature Film
Director and Writer Sarah Goher is expected to attend the January 4th and January 7th screenings.
Film Festival 2026
Eight-year-old child maid Toha forms a bond with her employer’s daughter, and makes it her mission to ensure that her friend’s impending ninth birthday is a great success, in this thoughtful yet sobering meditation on class relations in Egyptian society.
film synopsis
In this remarkably assured feature debut, eight-year-old Toha, the child maid of an affluent family, forms a bond with her employer’s daughter and makes it her mission to ensure that her friend’s impending ninth birthday is a great success. A thoughtful yet sobering meditation on child labor and class relations in Egyptian society, Happy Birthday was a triple prize-winner at the Tribeca Film Festival. Winner: Best International Narrative Feature, Best Screenplay – International Narrative Feature, Nora Ephron Award, Tribeca.