Horizons / Al Mahatta / Yemen, Jordan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar 2026
Layal has achieved a minor miracle. In the middle of a war zone, she has created an oasis of peace – a gas station guided by three simple rules: no men, no weapons, and no politics. When her younger brother faces enlistment, she is willing to do anything to keep him from being drafted. Only her older sister can help, but they have been estranged for a long time. In the middle of the fighting, can such things as love, humor, forgiveness, and empathy survive? In her fiction debut, Yemeni director Sara Ishaq shows that the answer is “Yes.” Her film gives a voice to the women whose husbands, brothers, and fathers have disappeared in the war, leaving them to face life on their own. Fortunately, they have each other.
Anna Kořínek
113 min / Color, DCP
Director Sara Ishaq
/ Screenplay Sara Ishaq, Nadia Eliewat
/ Dir. of Photography Amine Berrada
/ Music Tessa Rose Jackson, Darius Timmer
/ Sound Tarek Abu Ghoush
/ Editor Romain Namura
/ Producer Nadia Eliewat, Nicolas Leprêtre
/ Production Screen Project (a Ta Films Company), Georges Films
/ Coproduction One Two Films, KeplerFilm, Barentsfilm, Setara Films, The Imaginarium Films
/ Cast Manal Al-Mulaiki, Abeer Mohammed, Rashad Khaled, Saleh Al-marshahi, Fariha Hassan, Amal Esmail, Shorooq Mohammed, Randa Mohammed, Fatima Muthanna
/ Sales Paradise City Sales
Sara Ishaq. Filmography: Karama Has No Walls (2012, short doc.), The Mulberry House (Bayt al toot, 2013, doc.), The Station (Al Mahatta, 2026).
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