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The story

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 & crew

Hiam AbbassEftikhar

Raya Khatib

Raya KhatibRuba

Manal Awad

Manal AwadSafia

Mirna Sakhla

Mirna SakhlaZeinab

Maisa Abd ElhadiWedad

Dina Shuhaiber

Dina ShuhaiberSalma

Victoria Balitska

Victoria BalitskaChristine

Reem Talhami

Reem TalhamiWafaa

Raneem Al Daoud

Raneem Al DaoudMariam

Nelly Abou Sharaf

Nelly Abou SharafNatalie

Huda Al Imam

Huda Al ImamSameeha

Samira Al Aseer

Samira Al AseerFatima