Hayy Cinema | VHS Tape Replaced (2023)

محاور البرنامج

Director: Maha Al-Saati Country: Saudi Year: 2023 Language: Arabic In 1987, a young Saudi man tries to win the love of his dream by mimicking her favorite 80s artist, Crown. Maha Al-Saati Maha Al-Saati is an independent filmmaker interested in exploring women’s stories in the Arab World. She is an alum of the the TIFF Filmmaker Lab 2020 and TIFF Writers’ Studio 2021 , an honorary recipient of Share Her Journey Award 2020/2021. Her short films include: “ Fear: Audibly ” (2017) and “ Hair: The Story of Grass ” (2018), a satire about how body hair shapes beauty standards and gender, and an official selection of Fantastic Fest 2018, Slamdance 2019, HollyShorts 2019, and has won her The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) residency 2021.