2021 – 66th Edition
Official section - Feature films

Saloon Huda

Hany Abu-Assad
Palestina / Egipto / Países Bajos / Catar / Estados Unidos
 - 2020

Reem, a young mother married to a jealous man, goes to Huda’s salon in Bethlehem. But this ordinary visit turns sour when Huda, after having put Reem in a shameful situation, blackmails her to have her work for the secret service of the occupiers, and thus betray her people.

Hany Abu-Assad

He was born in Nazareth (Palestine) in 1961. After studying Aeronautical Engineering and practicing this profession for several years in the Netherlands, in 1994 he entered the world of cinema as a producer with the feature film ‘The Curfew’, by Rashid Masharawi. Four years later he directed his first feature film, ‘The 14th Chick’, from a script by Arnon Grunberg. His second fiction feature film was ‘Rana’ s Wedding’, selected at the Cannes Critics’ Week. With his third film, ‘Paradise Now’ (2005), he won the Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar. In 2011 he shot his fourth film in English, ‘The Courier’, and with ‘Omar’ he participated in 2013 in the Valladolid Festival and received another Oscar nomination. His filmography also includes feature films like ‘Idol’ (2015) and ‘The Mountain Between Us’ (2017).

DIRECTOR
Hany Abu-Assad
SCREENPLAY
Hany Abu-Assad
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ehab Assal, Peter Flinckenberg
EDITOR
Eyas Salman
SOUND
Ibrahim Zaher, Tom Bijnen, Mark Glynne
MUSIC
Jeffrey Van Rossum
PRODUCTION
Mohamed Hefzy, Hany Abu-Assad, Amira Diab
PRODUCTION COMPANY
H&A Productions, Lagoonie Film Production, Film-Clinic, MAD Solutions, Key Film
CAST
Ali Suliman, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Manal Awad, Jalal Masarwa, Samer Bisharat, Omar Abu Amer, Kamel El Basha
RUNNING TIME
91 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2020
COUNTRY
Palestina / Egipto / Países Bajos / Catar / Estados Unidos
CONTACT
Memento Films International
IN SPAIN
Karma Films

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