The Unnamed

At a glance

The Unnamed, is a 2025 Egyptian movie, directed by Abanoub Nabil, and starring Tia, MARWA MUSTAFA. with a runtime of 17 minutes.

Overview

The Unnamed is a short Egyptian experimental film that confronts the practice of female genital mutilation through unsettling poetic imagery. Jannah, the young daughter of a belly dancer, finds herself physically excised from her mother's body — a fragment of a person, wandering in search of a medical laboratory that will acknowledge her existence. Bold and unflinching, the film uses metaphor and abstraction where direct language falls short, creating a visual protest that is simultaneously a lament and a call to witness. A striking piece of cinema that dares to name the unnameable.

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