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The story
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”?
Cast & crew
Hiam Abbass
Eftikhar
Raya Khatib
Ruba
Manal Awad
Safia
Mirna Sakhla
Zeinab
Maisa Abd Elhadi
Wedad
Dina Shuhaiber
Salma
Victoria Balitska
Christine
Reem Talhami
Wafaa
Raneem Al Daoud
Mariam
Nelly Abou Sharaf
Natalie
Huda Al Imam
Sameeha
Samira Al Aseer
Fatima
Wedad Al Naser
Sawsan
Tarzan Nasser
Ahmed
Eric Devin
Cinematography
Rani Massalha
Producer
Marie Legrand
Producer
Benjamin Grospiron
Music
Arab Nasser
Director