Between the Two Worlds

This is a story about an unnamed French / Senegalese-Ghanaian Muslim woman who at age 19 rediscovers her faith and tries to balance between the two worlds – the seemingly futile life she lives on earth and the spiritual world of the unseen realm she now believes in. The monodrama is avant garde and poetic- as strange as the new situation she finds herself in when newly trying to navigate between deen (the spiritual) and dunya (life on earth).
This is a story of her struggle to balance ‘between the two worlds’.
Debut screening at The Africa Centre, London [2024], Screened at the Annual Black Muslim Awards, London and broadcast on Islam Channel [2024], Screened at Film Tottenham, Markfield Road Festival [2025].
Officially selected for Tottenham Film Festival [2025], International Film.
Trailer
Credit:
Written, Directed & Produced by Soukeyna O.
Animated by Maoura Khelifi
Voiceover by Soukeyna O.
Music by Makeda Makes Tunes ‘Table Talk’ & Steve Rice Music, ‘Kathy’s Secret’
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