Overview: Fay lives in a cloistered apartment, which she can’t leave because her only obstacle to the outside world is her brother. She expresses all of her obsessions through painting, but when she orders a new paint palette, matters get complicated. Directed by Anas Ba-Tahaf and produced by Producer-Actor Hisham Fageeh, who also plays the protagonist along with Sofia Asir, Fay’s Palette is a robust film full of vitality, plunging us into an unspoken world that reveals, through a peculiar incident, familiar obsessions and repressed frustrations that we share with Fay.
Overview: The story of two lovers who are united in an environment hostile to dating of any kind. Barakah is municipal civil servant from Jeddah and an amateur actor in a theatre troupe. Barakah is a wild beauty, who functions as a crowd-puller for her stylish mother’s boutique and runs her own widely-seen vlog. They both defy customs and traditions, as well as the religious police, using modern communication technologies and traditional dating methods.