Dégradé (2016)
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”?
Released: Apr 27, 2016
Runtime: 85 minutes
Stars: Hiam Abbass, Raya Khatib, Manal Awad, Mirna Sakhla, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Dina Shuhaiber
Crew: Tarzan Nasser (Director), Tarzan Nasser (Writer), Eric Devin (Director of Photography), Sophie Reine (Editor), Tarzan Nasser (Idea), Arab Nasser (Idea)