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Sabah
Canada
2005
90 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
No Subtitles
Audio in English
Synopsis
Sabah is a smart, beautiful Canadian Muslim woman. Just turning 40, her natural independence and passion have been dulled by 20 years of devotion to her loving but intense family, ruled with an iron hand by her brother. Then she has a crazy idea: as a treat to herself, she buys a bathing suit and goes swimming. When her towel is accidentally stolen, she meets Stephen, who is tall, handsome, sympathetic and definitely not Muslim. Their mutual attraction flowers and Sabah finds herself sneaking around like a teenager. Eventually, she will have to confront her relatives: can she rely on their love? A tale on the theme of racial and religious intolerance.
Director
Ruba Nadda
Ruba Nadda is an Arab Canadian film director. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on 6 December 1972 to a Syrian father and a Palestinian mother. She made several award-winning short films, including Lost Woman Story, Interstate Love Story, So Far Gone and Damascus Nights before writing and directing features I Always Come to You, Unsettled and Sabah. Her movie Cairo Time won the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. She is known for shooting feature films in very short time spans. —Wikipedia
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Moamen
29Apr12
well , good story and good film making .... but a very shallow film , the film tries to make it big and discuss big issues about muslims and women in western communities but sorrowfully , the film makers doesn't have the slightest or the basic facts of what they are discussing , the expression of a typical muslim family life and culture was very stereotypical and at some times rather funny than being correct .
Gaétan Dufort
27Jan10
Having watched this movie some years ago, I am still looking for the title and/or the name of the artist performing the music score where the ladies are dancing at the very end. I believe that is the scene shown in the picture used by this site.
jessessaye
18Dec09
Arsinée Khanjian is a great actress but I found what I saw of this film rather cliché. I should note, however, that I only saw this film in clips in a 200-level uni lecture analysing representations of Muslim women in film. I was all right, but if the point was to challenge ideas about the sexuality of Muslim women or to like... liberate a female Muslim character, it was all not very interesting. It maybe seemed a little bit like how French secular culture wants Muslims to be? Friends of mine went to a screening of this film for their high school creative writing class and described it as "chick flick + Muslim." Ehh.
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