Mohamed Rashad is an independent Egyptian writer‑director who first made a name for himself with documentary films and through his involvement in Hassala Films, a collective and production company he co‑founded with fellow filmmakers in order to work outside state‑sanctioned commissions and censorship. After exploring his own family history and the legacy of political struggle in Egypt in his documentary Little Eagles (2016), he turned to a real‑life incident as the starting point for L'Entente - La Face cachée d'Alexandrie (The Settlement), his first narrative feature. By setting the story in the working‑class neighborhoods and industrial outskirts of Alexandria, he examines social violence, employers' impunity and the traumatic burden placed on the children of factory workers.