Basma, Rafal Khalil, Passant Shawky

Hisham Saqr was born in Cairo and has more than ten years of experience as an editor in the Egyptian film industry. Saqr has worked with a number of acclaimed Egyptian directors. Certified Mail is his first feature film.

I made a film about the idea of loss and how one can surprisingly find the inner strength to deal with it. It is about how a normal person who is emotionally fragile copes with this; incomprehensible emotions such as anxiety and depression that lead to suicidal thoughts. I have personally gone through all these feelings and thoughts so I started to think: What if the main character was a woman who has just had a child? Society is asking a lot of her, especially when being a mother and having her own child adds much more to the illogical fear and anxiety of losing even her own new-born girl. These complex emotions and how she finds a way to cope with them is what I am examining in my film.

Basma
The Egyptian actress, also appearing in Media Luna’s Sheikh Jackson, first garnered the attention of a Western audience with a recurring role in FX drama show Tyrant.

Passant Shawky
She is known for the TV series Qabeel (2019), Kalabsh 2 (2018) and the movie Diamond Dust (2018).

Writer & Director Hisham Saqr
Producer Mohamed Hefzy
Production Company Film Clinic Productions
DOP Mostafa Sheshtawy            
Editor Hisham Saqr
Sound Ibrahim Dessoky 
Costume designer Heba Hosny
Set designer Hanan Crolos
Original score Ahmed Saleh