Amjad Al-Rasheed's debut feature is making history as the country's first-ever film selected for Cannes.
Al-Rasheed, who makes his feature debut, says he was inspired by a very close relative who faced the same situation.
It was this sentence that motivated the filmmaker to write the story and try to answer several big questions. “What if they hadn’t said this? What are her options? What if she said no? And is it logical that we are ruled by a law that was created 1,400 years ago?” There’s been much talk of female empowerment in the Middle East over recent years, especially in countries such as Saudi Arabia which famously lifted a ban on women driving and eliminating some of the restrictions that had been imposed through its system of male guardianship. But for all the headlines, the societies are still extremely male-dominated.
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