Dégradé

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”?

Cast

Hiam Abbass

Eftikhar

Raya Khatib

Ruba

Manal Awad

Safia

Mirna Sakhla

Zeinab

Maisa Abd Elhadi

Wedad

Dina Shuhaiber

Salma

Victoria Balitska

Christine

Reem Talhami

Wafaa

Raneem Al Daoud

Mariam

Nelly Abou Sharaf

Natalie