Addressing girls’ rights and exploitation of women in less civilized societies, "The Sea Lady” or "Scales" movie was made as one of the first serious Saudi experiences to compete in global film market.
The movie was produced by a Saudi-Emirati Iraqi partnership for Saudi writer & Director Shahad Amin.
It was broadcast at the Grand Hall of Cairo Opera House on Friday on the sidelines of the Cairo International Film Festival.
In a black and white color, the film tells of a remote village whose residents are living on hunting in exchange for sacrificing their female infants.
Half-human creatures living in the water are eating the female infants. One day, one of the village’s residents retreated after throwing his daughter “Hayat” and withdrew her quickly defying the village's customs and traditions.
As a result, hunting became difficult as fishes disappeared and the village lived in hunger.
The movie’s gender is fantasia at the first place. The key factor was the actors’ performance as the scenario is weak.
The weak scenario affected the movie negatively and that made the movie’s audience angry by the end of the broadcast.
The movie was shot in Oman and is nominated to compete in Afaq Competition at the Cairo International Film Festival.
The film’s main phrase was the last to be said: “There were other options.”
Despite the criticism of public audience, the film enjoyed the praise of critics.
Critic Dr. Magda Morris said that the film tells a myth.
“Although fit is fictional, it has symbolic social and cultural implications and discuss ideas of Arab society towards women who always bear the responsibilities of life and bear negative consequences, and even depleted exploitation as a duty,” Morris added.
"The Sea Lady" premiered at the Venice Film Festival, which won the Verona Award for the most creative film, as well as last October in the days of Carthage, which won the Bronze Tanit.
It is worth mentioning that the participation of the film came in implementation of the world charter of equality between men and women, which means to represent women in film festivals and empower them cinematic by 2020.
Contributed by Nawal Sayed
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