Maha Al-Saati is a filmmaker interested in women’s stories in the Arab World. She is an alum of the TIFF Filmmaker Lab 2020, TIFF Writers’ Studio 2021, and received the Share Her Journey Award 2020/20 21. Her shorts include “Hair: The Story of Grass” (2018), an official selection of Fantastic Fest 2018 and Slamdance 2019 and has won her The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) residency 2021. Her feature project “Hajj to Disney” was developed with the Red Sea Lodge and TorinoFilmLab 2019, and won development awards from El-Gouna Film Festival 2020 and Red Sea Fund 2022. Read More

synopsis

Set in a Disney-esque island populated by obedient princesses, a fairytale gone wrong. Snow White forms a friendship with a talking ram, but fearing that death will keep them apart, she seeks the appl e of eternal life to avoid their inevitable separation. Read More

Highlights

Malmö Arab Film Festival, Sweden

Arab Film Festival,

Beirut International Women Film Festival, Lebanon