Private Project

Eid Mubarak

A privileged six-year-old Pakistani girl embarks on a mission to save her beloved pet goat from being eaten on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Azha, only to learn the meaning of sacrifice.

  • Mahnoor Euceph
    Director
  • Mahnoor Euceph
    Writer
  • Selena Leoni
    Executive Producer
  • Ben O'Keefe
    Producer
  • Kamil Chima
    Producer
  • Selena Leoni
    Producer
  • Rubab Rasheed
    Key Cast
    "Iman"
  • Momina Salman
    Key Cast
    "Momina"
  • Zoha Rahman
    Key Cast
    "Mama"
  • Emmad Butt
    Key Cast
    "Baba"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 5, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    Pakistan, United States
  • Language:
    Urdu
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Mahnoor Euceph

Mahnoor Euceph is a Pakistani-American filmmaker. She immigrated from Karachi, Pakistan to Los Angeles, California when she was eight years old.

In 2017, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA's School of the Arts and Architecture, with a Bachelor of Arts in Design | Media Arts and a minor in Film, TV, and Digital Media. During her undergraduate degree, she studied Art and Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art in London went on scholarship to study the Israel-Palestine conflict with the Olive Tree Initiative in Jordan, Israel, and Palestine, and returned to Pakistan for the first time since immigrating to work for the production company of two-time Oscar winner, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy.

In May 2021, she completed her Master’s of Fine Arts at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in Film & Television Production, with an emphasis in comedy writing and directing, and production design. She was a George Lucas Scholar, recipient of one of the most prestigious scholarships at the school. During that time, she served as Art Director for the Disney short film, American Eid, Disney’s first ever Muslim story, now streaming on Disney +.

Eid Mubarak serves as her professional directorial debut, and is based on her real childhood experience of celebrating Eid al-Azha in Pakistan.

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Director Statement

Would that you could live on the fragrance of the earth, and like an air plant be sustained by the light.

But since you must kill to eat, and rob the newly born of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship.

And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

When you kill a beast say to him in your heart, “By the same power that slays you, I too am slain; and I too shall be consumed. For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.”

- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

I made this film as a love letter to the country I once called home, to the religion that taught me how to be a human with humanity, and to my family who are the beginning
and end of everything.

For non-Muslims, I hope this film is educational. For Muslims, I hope it is reflective.

And I hope, for everyone, it is a reminder of childhood, and that magical, wondrous world we leave behind when we grow up.