
Person
Randa Ali
Directing · Born 1990-10-06 · Cairo, Egypt
Biography
Randa Ali is a filmmaker working between Egypt and the USA. In 2024, her short film Mango, an exploration of loss and grief through a daughter-father relationship, was in the official competitions of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Bilbao International Film Festival (ZINEB) and the Cairo International Film Festival. Mango was also awarded the WWF award at MedFilm Festival.For her film Kingdom of Strangers (2022), she was awarded the ARRI Franz Weiser grant. The film also received the Jury awards at Toronto Arab Film Festival, Cairo Int'l Shorts Film Festival and Beirut Shorts. Randa is a graduate of UCLA's Directing MFA program, where she was recipient of a full-ride scholarship offered to female filmmakers from the Arab world.
Known for

Mango
Writer

Kingdom of Strangers
Writer

Poetica for the Living
Assistant Director
Ministry of Loneliness
Director

If You Find Me in Cairo
Director
Filmography
- 2024MangoWriter
- 2022Kingdom of StrangersWriter
- 2021If You Find Me in CairoDirector
- —Ministry of LonelinessDirector
- —Poetica for the LivingAssistant Director
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