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HAIR: THE STORY OF GRASS

15 min Saudi Arabia 2018 Arabic Dialogue

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Maha Al-Saati
Director

Maha Al-Saati

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

synopsis

Cultural attitudes towards beauty standards are exhaustively unpacked in this delirious satire, about how hair dictates the social mobility of a put-upon caretaker and her intellectually challenged wa

Highlights

Festival Title Saudi Film Festival, Saudi Arabia

Festival Title Red Sea International Film Festival, Saudi Arabia

Festival Title Rotterdam Arab Film Festival, Netherlands

Available On

Netflix

Producer

Khalid Fahad , Maha Al-Saati

Cast

Abdulhaleem Salman , Aziz Gharbawi , Nada Tawhid , Fahad Al-Ghamdi

Scriptwriter

Maha Al-Saati , Saad Al-Motham

Director of Photography (DOP)

Aziz Allaf

Editor

Maha Al-Saati

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