Marwa Zein

Marwa Zein Arbab , Award Winning Nubian - Afro-Arab Film Director, Script Writer and Producer for her acclaimed debut 'Khartoum Offside' and acclaimed short fiction films 'A game' and 'One week, Two days'. 'Khartoum Offside' is Awarded Best Documentary for 2019 by The 15th Africa Movie Academy Awards AMAA 2019. Carthage International Film Festival JCC awarded the film best 1st work by TV5 Monde. The film won Best Documentary award in FCAT Spain 2019 and Special Mention Award at Malmo Arab FF Sweden 2019 and nominated for best Arabic film in Cairo International FF 2019. The film had its World Premiere at Berlinale Forum 2019 and officially selected in the most prestigious international festivals; Visions Du Reel, CPH DOX, Hot Docs and Sheffield, JCC, IDFA & CIFF 2019. Betwen 2019 and 2021 the film was shows in more than 70 international film festivals and translated into 5 languages. Zein was born in Saudi Arabia & lived in Egypt. Quit studying Chemical engineering in Cairo University after 3 years to study Cinema in Academy of arts in Cairo, Egypt in 2005. Graduate with honorable mention 2009. moved to Europe in 2017 and finalised her masters in film and media arts with honorable mentions from KHM Academy of media arts in Cologne, Germany 2021. Worked as Assistant Director to many acclaimed Egyptian directors such as: Halah Khalil, Khairi Beshara, Dawoud Abdelsayed and Shady Fakharany between 2009 and 2015. Worked as festival programmer for Sudan Independent Film Festival between 2014 and 2017. She established her own production company 'ORE Productions' in 2017 based in Khartoum, Sudan.