Young artist Nour Murad expressed her happiness that their film Olfa’s Daughters won the Best Documentary Award at the Gotham International Awards. She stressed her pride in the film continuing its series of major international achievements.
On the other hand, Nour participates in the activities of the Red Sea Festival in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, along with the family of the film Olfa Girls, in which Nour co-stars with the star Hend Sabry.
Nour, who attended the world premiere of the film in the official competition of the Cannes International Film Festival.
Nour is known as Nour Al-Qarawi.
She performed her first play while she was in middle school, entitled “Marushka” for children, directed by Asmaa Al-Abdi, and “The Maids” for adults. She began acting professionally. With the play Aisha 13, directed by Sami Al-Nasri, which is a play that tells about different, rebellious, dreaming women in a psychiatric hospital.
The play The Condition, directed by Asmaa Al-Abdi, talks about difference and acceptance of the different in the children’s environment, with the distinguished participation of the Al-Qamar children.
Her first cinematic experience was in 2021 with the great director Kawthar Ben Hania and star Hend Sabry. It is a film that mixes documentary and fiction. His story reflects the transformations in the reality of marginalized Tunisian families before and after the revolution. In it, Nour played the role of Rahma, the second daughter who joined her older sister in hotbeds of tension.
Nour expressed her happiness at working with Hend Sabry and described her as beautiful inside and out. She added that Hend helps you and helps you embody her energy and spontaneity, and Nour describes the three weeks of filming with Hend as the best times.
Nour will not forget the experience of showing the film in Cannes, the continuous applause for more than ten minutes, and the congratulations and applause of the world stars.
Nour hoped that the film, in its first Arab showing at the Red Sea Film Festival, would receive the same success and reactions that occurred in Cannes.
Nour expressed her happiness that her first film would be with a director of the caliber of Kawthar Ben Hania, whom she enjoyed working with and learned a lot from.
