Dégradé

1h 25m

7.4

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

Maisa Abd Elhadi

Victoria Balitska

Raneem Al Daoud

Nelly Abou Sharaf

Samira Al Aseer

Crew

Director, Writer, Production Design, Idea

Director, Writer, Production Design, Idea

Director of Photography

Assistant Director

Assistant Director

Rashid Abdelhamid

Julia Balaeskoul Nusseibeh

Associate Producer

Guillaume Houzé

Associate Producer

Associate Producer

Alexis de Montaigu

Associate Producer

Associate Producer

Mohammed Nabil Alasmar

Associate Producer

Laurent Baudens

Gilles Padovani

Georges Schoucair

Muhannad Halawani

Thibault Blondel

Production Assistant

Mustafa Abu Denein

Production Assistant

Damien Dufresne

First Assistant Camera

Second Assistant Camera

Nour Al Dine Moqbel

Christophe Etrillard

Benjamin Grospiron

Original Music Composer

Issam Yousef Nouri