Haifaa Al-Mansour Biography

Haifaa al-Mansour is a Saudi Arabian film director. She is one of the country's best-known and most controversial directors and the first female Saudi filmmaker.
She began her filmmaking career with three shorts Who? The Bitter Journey and The Only Way Out. The Only Way Out won prizes in the United Arab Emirates and in the Netherlands. She followed these with the documentary Women Without Shadows which deals with the hidden lives of women in Arab States of the Persian Gulf. It was shown at 17 international festivals. The film received the Golden Dagger for Best Documentary in the Muscat Film Festival and a special jury mention in the fourth Arab Film Festival in Rotterdam. Haifaa al-Mansour was a guest at the 28th Three Continents Festival in Nantes France.
Her feature debut Wadjda which she wrote as well as directed made its world premiere at the 2012 Venice Film Festival; it is the first full-length feature to be shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and through 2013 the only feature-length film made in Saudi Arabia by a female director. Wadjda was selected as the Saudi Arabian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards which is the first time Saudi Arabia has submitted a film for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.

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