These Saudi directors are making a name for themselves on the international film festival circuit.
Alfasi is currently working on her short film “When the Shelves Hymn” with Film AlUla. She is an alumna of the Rawi Screenwriters Lab, which was run in collaboration with the Sundance Institute and the Med Film Factory by the Royal Film Commission in Jordan.
The filmmaker’s upcoming film “Malika” is a short fantasy movie about a young girl who goes on an adventure to find her dying grandmother’s lost crown.
The sisters “aim to have the first Saudi musical … at Cannes very soon,” they previously told Arab News.
Ameen’s 2019 film “Scales” played at the Venice Film Festival and she currently has another feature, titled “Hijra,” in the works.
Al-Banawi’s feature film debut “Basma” tackles mental illness and follows a 26-year-old woman as she tries to help her father, who suffers from paranoid delusions.
The director’s “Norah” became the first Saudi film to appear as part of the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
