My Father and Qaddafi
Jihan | US, Libya | 2025 | English, Arabic & French with English subtitles | 88m
Scottish Premiere
When Jihan was six years old, her father flew to Cairo and never returned. Mansur Rashid Kikhia was the Foreign Minister of Libya, ambassador to the United Nations, and a human rights lawyer. After serving in Qaddafi's increasingly brutal regime, he defected and became the leader of the peaceful opposition. For many, Kikhia was a rising star who could have been the next leader of Libya, however, in 1993 he disappeared from his hotel in Egypt.
Jihan’s mother Baha Al Omary, a strong-willed Syrian-American artist, began searching for him, launching the family into an international political maze. Yet it wasn’t until after the regime’s fall, 19 years later, that his body was found in a freezer near Qaddafi’s palace.
My Father and Qaddafi takes the audience on a raw and reflective journey as Jihan pieces together a father she barely remembers, while discovering the troubled history and politics of Libya.
The feature will be screened alongside short film:
Vis-à-Vis
Mamadou Yattassaye | US | 2025 | English | 13m
Scottish Premiere
An experimental narrative short film centered around first generation painter Moussa and his psyche as he internally grapples with his father’s ailing condition. Sitting with archives, he fleshes out a memory of rare intimacy with his father – a day he now yearns to recreate..