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Overview

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

N/A

Raya Khatib

Ruba

Manal Awad

Safia

N/A

Mirna Sakhla

Zeinab

Maisa Abd Elhadi

Wedad

N/A

Dina Shuhaiber

Salma

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Victoria Balitska

Christine

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Reem Talhami

Wafaa

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Raneem Al Daoud

Mariam

N/A

Nelly Abou Sharaf

Natalie

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Huda Al Imam

Sameeha

N/A

Samira Al Aseer

Fatima