Oman / 2013 / 21mins / Drama / Swahili

The dark-skinned 11-year-old Cholo meets his fair-skinned younger stepbrother Abdullah for the first time when their father Said arrives in Muscat. Although strikingly different, the boys have great chemistry. Cholo is a 10-year-old boy full of imagination and a great love for nature and life. But jealousy, competitiveness and curiosity arise between the two, as they go through a journey of self-discovery.

Muzna Almusafer

Muzna Almusafer was born in Madinat Sultan Qaboos in Muscat, Oman. Her admiration for images started at an early age through her father, who is a painter and a photographer. She graduated from Kuwait University majoring in mass communication with a minor in political science and took courses in Swedish cinema and Television culture at Stockholm University. Her first film Niqab was the winner of a student short film competition at the Gulf Film Festival in Dubai. Her second short film Cholo, which won Best Script at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival premiered at the Dubai Film Festival in 2013, and also screened at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of African Arts in Washington D.C. It also screened at Institute de Monde Arabe in Paris, showed on TV5 Monde and on Voice of America Persia. Almusafer has served as jury member at the Saudi Film Festival and the Sultan Qaboos High Centre for Arts and Culture film competition. She is a board member of the Oman Film Society. Learn More