Here’s an excerpt from a review of the film from the Venice Film Festival, as penned by The Hollywood Reporter’s Stephen Dalton: “Young Saudi writer-director Shahad Ameen makes an impressively stylish splash with her debut feature Scales, a timeless magical realist fable with a contemporary feminist message. Ameen’s debut arrives as a welcome addition to Saudi cinema’s growing female-led cinematic canon.
Other festivals that “Scales” toured include London, Carthage, Cairo, Singapore (where it won Best Picture), as well as SXSW 2020. 'Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj' Will Move Further Into Investigative Journalism When Hayat’s father refuses, the girl becomes a pariah, considered a curse by the village and urged to sacrifice herself - but Hayat has her own ideas about her destiny.”įacing Government Pressure to Remove Gay Character, Netflix Cancels Turkish Show It follows the story of a strong-willed young girl, Hayat, whose poor fishing village is governed by a dark tradition: every family must give one daughter to the mermaid-like sea creatures who inhabit the waters, to ensure the village can continue their fishing expeditions. Here’s the official synopsis: “‘Scales’ is a visually stunning feminist parable set in a dystopian landscape.
After making a splash at the Venice Film Festival in 2019, where it was honored with the Verona Award in the Critics’ Week section and dubbed the lineup’s most innovative film, the film is now reading for a stateside release. A dystopian landscape, a curse, a dark family tradition, and mermaids: These are just a few of the foreboding elements that make up Shahad Ameen’s Saudi Arabian feminist fable “ Scales,” which represented the country in the 2021 Best International Feature Academy Awards race.
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