Synopsis
A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict. But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lion from Gaza’s only zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores. Stuck in the salon, with the prospect of death drawing ever nearer, the women start to unravel. How will the day end? Will they lose their lives for the sake of “liberating the lion”?
Key facts
Original language
Arabic
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Festival History
- International Film Festival of Kerala 2023 generic
- Athens International Film Festival 2015 generic
- Cannes Film Festival 2015 generic
- Toronto International Film Festival 2015 generic
Versions & editions
| Original version (Arabic) |
Source: Cinémathèque québécoise, linked catalogue data (CC BY 4.0)
