DÉGRADÉ

By Tarzan NASSER, Arab NASSER

ELLE DRIVER - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2015

Gaza Strip, nowadays. Thirteen women are stuck a whole afternoon in a beauty salon because of gunshots breaking out just in front of the salon.

Festivals
& Awards

La Semaine de la Critique 2015
Toronto - TIFF 2015
Discovery
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama, Comedy
    • Countries
    • PALESTINE, FRANCE, QATAR
    • Languages
    • ARABIC
    • Duration
    • 83 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Tarzan NASSER, Arab NASSER
    • Writer(s)
    • Tarzan NASSER, Arab NASSER
    • Producer(s)
    • Marie LEGRAND (Les Films du Tambour), Rani MASSALHA (Les Films du Tambour), Rashid ABDELHAMID (Made in Palestine Project)
    • Synopsis
    • A hot summer’s day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict.
      But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lion from Gaza’s only zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores.
      Stuck in the salon, with the prospect of death drawing ever nearer, the women start to unravel. How will the day end? Will they lose their lives for the sake of “liberating the lion”?