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Haifaa al-Mansour was a guest at the 28th Three Continents Festival in Nantes, France. [ 1 ] Her feature debut, Wadjda , which she wrote as well as directed, made its world premiere at the 2012 Venice Film Festival ; it is the first full-length feature to be shot entirely in Saudi Arabia [ 2 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and as of 2013, the only ...
When Haifaa Al-Mansour made her first feature film “Wadjda” in 2012, Saudi Arabia’s first-ever Oscar submission, she famously had to direct the film from the back of a van while segregated ...
The Perfect Candidate (Arabic: المرشحة المثالية, romanized: al-muraššaḥa al-mithāliyya) is a 2019 Saudi Arabian drama film directed by Haifaa al-Mansour. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.
Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi film director. The cinema of Saudi Arabia is a fairly small industry that only produces a few feature films and documentaries every year. Theaters were closed after religious activism in the 1980s.
Haifaa Al-Mansour Won Venice Film Festival: 8 September 2012 CinemAvvenire Award Haifaa Al-Mansour (Best Film—Il cerchio non è rotondo Award) C.I.C.A.E. Award Haifaa Al-Mansour Interfilm Award British Academy Film Awards: 16 February 2014 Best Foreign Film Haifaa Al-Mansour, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul Nominated
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In July 2006, a partial new two-story wing was added, which included a new 15 screen movie theatre, "Yes Planet" (sponsored by the Israeli satellite company Yes), and some fast food restaurants. The new theatre replaced the old approximately 10-year-old one, which had only 4 screens. The old cinema was replaced with about 10 new stores.
It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. [1] The film focuses on a Palestinian woman, who gives birth to a son while in jail. [ 2 ] It was selected as the Jordanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.