I TOLD YOU SO

قُلتلِك

By Malak ALSAYYAD, Amaan STEWART (CO-DIRECTOR)

MALAK ALSAYYAD (INDEPENDENT) - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2023

A first-person investigation into living and loving despite chronic pain, while fighting doctors, medical skeptics and that little voice inside your head telling you that you’re crazy!

Festivals
& Awards

DOC NYC 2023
DOC NYC U Award
El Gouna Film Festival 2024
Short Film Lounge
Zawya Shorts 2024
Best Film Award & Audience Award
Aswan Internatinal Women Film Festival 2024
Best Film with Impact Award
MedFest Egypt 2024
Best Emerging Filmmaker Award
Oran International Arab Film Festival 2024
Official Selection
Mirada Corta | Visiones Unicas 2024
Semi-finalist
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Social issues, Female director
    • Countries
    • USA, EGYPT
    • Languages
    • ARABIC, ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 27 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Malak ALSAYYAD, Amaan STEWART (CO-DIRECTOR)
    • Producer(s)
    • Judith HELFAND (EP), Malak ALSAYYAD, Rajvi DESAI, Amaan STEWART, Loren TOWNSLEY
    • Synopsis
    • After years of debilitating period pain and unexplained symptoms, Malak finally gets a diagnosis: she has endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disease that affects 1 in every 10 women and people who menstruate worldwide. Despite being so prevalent, the disease has no known cause, no cure, and is not taken seriously, even by her own mother.


      In I Told You So Malak grapples with a tumultuous relationship with her pain, her body and her dreams for the future. On this journey of discovery mired by self-doubt and shame, she enters the world of “Endo Warriors,” patients who have lost their patience, in hopes that she can finally come to terms with the question: “How do I live with this?”