First Feature
Working underground in the year before the legalization of cinema in Saudi Arabia, a team of mostly women makes its first feature film.Anonymous accounts of their experience are brought together in a melancholic narration.In the spirit of first films, a filmmaker documents the production in Jeddah with his first video camera from childhood.
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Working underground in the year before the legalization of cinema in Saudi Arabia, a team of mostly women makes its first feature film. Anonymous accounts of their experience are brought together in a melancholic narration. In the spirit of first films, a filmmaker documents the production in Jeddah with his first video camera from childhood.
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- Release date
- Jul 20, 2018
- Runtime
- 0h 14m
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- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
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