Dear friends,
Film writers don’t get to say this often, but: today’s movie comes from Saudi Arabia. It’s the first-ever movie made by a female Saudi director.
The woman in question, Haifaa al-Mansour, spent five years trying to secure funding for the film. And when she succeeded, she had to direct from the back of a van, in the heat of the capital Riyad…
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