Dibo

Had so much fun working on this a few months ago with a fun crew who had full trust in my creative process, which is always truly humbling and enabling 🫶🏼✨ 🎭 Directed by: @allthingsdibo Production House: @p4concept Executive producer: @hagarmohamedamer @mohelsheriff DOP: @dishahisham Art Director: @omneya__tawakol Food Stylist: @amalmansour.food_stylist Production Manager: Eslam Sherif Assistant Director: @nohaelhattab Assistant Producer: @omarramses Post House: @elshreetfilms Editor: @muhammedmatter Colorist: @yakooooota Sound Studio: @thesoundofegypt_studios Agency: @tac.universe Creative: @ahmedelhareedy Client: @rotanadairy

Hello 2025. This year I’m taking all the shots. #iloveshots

A super fun and challenging shoot - roll to wrap in 4 hours, 15 minutes. Couldn’t have done it without an incredibly skilled and supportive crew 🫶🏼 @partment.co featuring @marmoush Director: Dibo @allthingsdibo X Youssef Hammad @youssefhammad__ Creative Director/Writer: Youssef hammad (a big, fat, special thank you to you Joe 🤗 ashtar wahed) UK Production House: @coda.filmworks DOP: @calumcurrie Producer: @hattiejacksonfilm 1st AD: @billie_hallo Production Designer: @ruta_creative_design Stylist: @saralouisestylist Post Production: @pymk.studios Managing Director: @sarah_abouzeid Senior Editor: @hussienmokhtarr Editor: @abdelrahman_sammehh Colorist: @essamabdelsalamm VFX: Hassani Mahmoud Music and SFX: @amr_elbanna Photography: @_ahmedkadry Agency: @7_agency Founder: @ahmedabdoun Business Director: @marwanzayed_ Partment Team: @nadimnagui @aliaa_elalaily @arigeenal4

@cairoscene : Who do children ask about tomatoes? In their latest campaign, directed by Dibo, sexual health organisation Safe Egypt uses the tomato as a metaphor for sex - something seemingly mundane, yet still culturally unspoken. On screen, both parents assume their daughter will have the conversation with the other, quietly passing off a topic generations have treated as unsayable. ‘Talk to Your Children About Tomatoes’ is really saying: talk to your children about sex.

Some filmmakers create visuals. Dibo @allthingsdibo creates emotional worlds shaped by memory, culture, contradiction, and play. From building cinematic campaigns across the Middle East to designing cognitive games for his father living with dementia, his work moves between intimacy and spectacle in ways that feel deeply human. Dibo (@ ) is not chasing a signature style. He is building stories that feel lived, unpredictable, and impossible to place inside one category. filmmaker, creative director, cinematic storytelling, Middle East cinema, commercial directing, visual artist, storytelling, creative entrepreneur #gulfmagazine #gulfmag #dibo #filmmaker #creative director cinematography storytelling middleeastcreative visualartist

Safe Egypt is helping parents talk to their children about tomatoes, but they’re not really talking about tomatoes. They’re talking about sex. “The idea of the campaign started from something very simple: tomatoes are present at every dining table, in every home, and in every fridge, to the point that sometimes we stop noticing they’re even there,” Dibo, the director and creative behind the campaign, tells CairoScene. “And that’s very similar to certain questions and topics that are always around us, whether we talk about them or not.” Dibo directed the first of four short awareness films for Safe Egypt, an organisation that has been raising awareness about sexual abuse and violence and working to protect and empower children, teens and women for the past 14 years. Their new campaign asks parents to speak to their children about sex because if they don’t, their children will get their information elsewhere. Parents should be the first and safest source of information for their children, especially given the amount of easily accessible and inaccurate information they may turn to on the internet. “We realised the problem isn’t that children ask questions, the problem is that many adults were never taught how to answer them,” Sara Aziz says, the founder of Safe Egypt. “The campaign honestly reflects our children’s questions and thoughts that they sometimes can’t say out loud, while also presenting the right response, the right mindset, and the right principles.” For the full article head to scenenow.com or download the SceneNow app - link in bio. 🖋️Laila Shadid

Some early morning things.

April was a year of growth.

Another one for @fromhona . . . . #tabletopdirector #motioncontrol #advertising #commercial #foodfilm

More in the spirit of sharing and creating a bit of a visual diary here on Instagram for me to go back to. We live to create memories and stories. A million little stories live rent free inside my head, and this becomes my visual library in all things art (and life). This is from an album in my gallery called “PEOPLE I DON’T KNOW, SHOT ON FILM”. Grateful for the richness of experience, the privilege of access, and the openness to truly see. Share your favorite if you’d like ✨

I’ve been wanting to share more things in general on social media but I always have so much going on that I just live through experiences and never actually keep the visual diary I would like to keep. So to change that a bit, just now, I typed “rain” and “cold” and “winter” on my phone gallery and I got thousands of awesome memories. Here are some: 1. People dancing and praying for rain after the Aussie bushfires in 2019. 2. Rain in Alexandria (with the yellow taxi in the picture. So so many memories right there. Used to go to school in the rain sometimes, unlike today 😅) 3. Manchester, 2019 4. Melbourne, 2020. All seasons happen within the hour in Melbourne. 5. A rainbow in the vineyards in the ranch I lived in in Australia. 6. After a night of rain during Covid. I loved that marble purse statue for some reason. 7. After Rain + waterfall in Australia. This was a super fun day! 8. Alexandria again but in 2021. I remember this day as I was going through a breakup and it was a difficult day for me. 9. On film, somewhere around the world. Can’t remember where! 10. I bought this painting in Italy and had to travel around with it. I told myself if it actually makes it through all the conditions then it’s meant for me. It’s in my living room now :) 11. Riyadh, where it is rarely cold, and rarely rains (random). In an icecream shop. 12. Took @cherineshiha to ski on her birthday! 13. On a very very random night with @molliefeerick and @nat.rowbotham in London last year. 14. Decided to sit and draw this Botero statue in Madrid. I was visiting @marwanibrahim7 and bumped into @omaraawar randomly there, so we hung out and he took this picture. 15. With @ahmtarek in London last October. 16. Singing in the car with dad this morning. 17. Learning to ski in ski Egypt a few months ago. 18. Melbourne, 2020. 19. Lobsters. 20. Sete, France. This was a water festival. They sing for water, and some people even do things like peeing in buckets and celebrating this or some weird shit. We were scouting locations to shoot a short film that starred @kirstyn_niccolle and @balsamoney Enjoyed going down memory lane with the topic of rain ☔️Thank you for joining, see you next time 😃😅

To my best friend and my partner across dimensions. We decided a few months ago to put all this time we spend together to good use and dedicate some of it to produce something awesome.. something that only we can make by coming together. From ideation to pivots to abandoned concepts to recipe development to sampling and testing to factory visits and complex terminologies to the steepest learning curve, more of a learning obstacle course, to agreements and disagreements to constantly growing separately and together, to pushing through and not taking no for an answer to breaking through physical and mental blocks.. this is just the beginning ya Dabdoub 🛶 🌺 🧿 🪬