{"id":25799,"date":"2026-10-14T11:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrikaldia.com\/2026\/10\/14\/sarah-goher\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T17:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:35:39","slug":"sarah-goher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrikaldia.com\/en\/2026\/10\/14\/sarah-goher\/","title":{"rendered":"SARAH GOHER"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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BIO<\/strong><\/p>

Sarah Goher is an Egyptian-American writer and producer, born and bred in the South Bronx. An alumna of NYU Tisch and the Nightingale Bamford School, Sarah worked on Cairo 678<\/em> (2010), Clash<\/em> (2016), Amira<\/em> (2021) and Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight<\/em> (2022). Her directorial debut, Happy Birthday<\/em>, premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Festival in New York City, where Sarah won 3 awards: Best International Feature, Best International Screenplay, and the Nora Ephron award for a distinguished female filmmaker.<\/p>

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FILMOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>

Happy Birthday (2025). <\/strong>Feature film (91\u2019). – Director.<\/strong><\/p>

Moon Knight (2022) \u2013 <\/strong>TV Mini Series (6 episodes, 50\u2019 each). – Consulting producer.<\/strong><\/p>

Amira (2021). <\/strong>Feature film (98\u00b4). – Producer. <\/strong><\/p>

Clash (2016). <\/strong>Feature film (97\u2019). –<\/strong> Creative producer. <\/strong><\/p>

Cairo 678 (2010). <\/strong>Feature film (100\u2019). – Producer. <\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>

I wanted to make this film\u2026 because her name was Sahar. She was the only other kid my age in my grandmother\u2019s house in Cairo, where I\u2019d spend my summers far away from New York. I could barely speak Arabic, and she, no English, but that never got in the way of our endless misadventures.<\/p>

That she served my grandmother was a peculiar observation I never made much of as a child. Even worse, everyone dealt with her presence as if there was nothing unusual. If anything, my grandmother was praised for taking her in and sparing her a worse reality of harsh labor and God knows what… But the closer I got to Sahar, the more I could sense the big feelings hiding inside her little body that no one seemed to notice; her complicated sense of identity hanging in limbo between two very different and unforgiving worlds. Sahar greatly inspired this story and the development of TOHA\u2019s character.<\/p>

The term \u201cchild maid\u201d should make one shudder, evoking visceral discomfort and outrage. Children like Toha exist within an unyielding social hierarchy-a structure that offers scarce opportunities for mobility while fostering a stark interdependence and tension between upper and lower classes. This fraught dynamic becomes the stage upon which Toha\u2019s story unfolds. The film delves into the complexities of her emotions as she relentlessly pursues a fantastical yet deeply relatable wish.<\/p>

Child labor is illegal and punishable by law in Egypt. According to UNICEF, over 160 million children WORLDWIDE are engaged in child labor. That number does not reflect the many Tohas who often slip between cracks under the false pretense of goodwill, cloaked in classism.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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