WHEN THE SHELVES HYMN
Genre
Drama
Running time
20 minutes
Year
2024
Language
Arabic and English
Subtitle
English and Arabic
Country
Saudi Arabia
Director
Hanaa Saleh Alfassi
Bio
Producer
Moayad Abualkhair, Alwaleed Alsalhi, Maia Malas, Gianluca Chakra
Cast
Mana Almajd, Emad Amer, Ayman Samman
Scriptwriter
Mana Almajd, Hanaa Saleh Alfassi, Jade
SHOWTIME
Sun
08.
Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 3
10:00 PM - 11:17 PM
Price: 40 SAR
Wed
11.
Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 3
2:45 PM - 4:07 PM
Price: 40 SAR
Sat
14.
Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 1
4:30 PM - 5:47 PM
Price: 40 SAR
After Mariam’s husband mysteriously disappears, she reluctantly takes their teenage son Saeed from their home in Jeddah to mountainous AIUla, intending to sell their family-owned antique shop. Saeed is sullenly resentful, detesting the move; Mariam struggles to stay in charge while she searches for the title documents she needs to make a sale. What she finds instead are unpaid bills, a video diary in which her husband confessed to severe depression and some newspaper clippings about suicide. It is a discovery that will change her outdated view of men’s role as she and her son together embrace a new, independent life.
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