Sweetness in the Belly

Director: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari Zeresenay Berhane Mehari

Overview

Director Zeresenay Mehari's transnational drama is an adaptation of English-born Canadian writer Camilla Gibb's 2005 novel of the same name. Starring Dakota Fanning, Kunal Nayyar, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Wunmi Mosaku, it traces the story of Lilly Abdal, an Anglo-Irish woman who grew up in Morocco as an orphan and embraced Islam. She is forced to flee to England after a civil war breaks out in Ethiopia in the 1970s.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/07/2020
UPC:	0850015345036
Original Release:	2020
Source:	Gravitas Ventures
Language:	English
Sales rank:	51,483

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dakota Fanning	Lily Abdal
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II	Aziz
Kunal Nayyar	Dr. Robin Sathi
Wunmi Mosaku	Amina
Gavin Drea	Philip
Peter Bankole	Yusuf
Amerjit Deu	Mr. Jahangir
Mylène Gomera	Zema
Molly McCann	Lilly Mitchell (7)
Yohanna Ephrem	Senit
Neelam Bakshi	Mrs. Jahangir
David Fawaz	Mr. ture (as David Khalid Fawaz)
Louise Benghazi	Fatima
Sharon Coade	Shelter Worker
Sara Mokonen	Scarred Ethopian Woman
Henok Berihune	Munir
Rafael Goncalves	Ahmed
Mark Quigley	Doctor
Chris McHallem	Actor
Denis Conway	Actor
Sophie Kennedy Clark	Actor
Estad Tewfik Yusuf Mohamed	Actor
Antionette Doyle	Actor
Edelwork Tassew	Actor
Zeritu Kebede	Actor
Nuhamin Eskete	Actor
Stella Bass	Actor
Donna Anita Nikolaisen	Actor
Kevin Njoroge	Actor
David Ryan	Actor
Burt Caesar	Actor
Cleo Sylvestre	Vertise
Aviya Akande	Actor
Salma Teniola Junaid	Actor
Jason Momodu	Actor
Eden Quinn	Actor
Isabel Lema	Actor
Peter Bankolé	Yusuf
Todor Kobakov	Composer

Technical Credits

Camilla Gibb

Laura Phillips

Zeresenay Berhane Mehari	Director
Jennifer Kawaja	Producer
Julia Sereny	Producer
Alan Moloney	Producer
Camilla Gibb	Screenwriter
Mehret Mandefro	Executive Producer
Fiona Drukenmiller	Executive Producer
Laura Bickford	Executive Producer
Adrian Sturges	Executive Producer
Christina Kubacki	Executive Producer
Patrick Roy	Executive Producer
Laura Phillips	Screenwriter
Susan Mullen	Producer
Dan Hubbard	Casting,Casting
Amy Rowan	Casting