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Article: Aspiring Saudi Filmmakers Offer a Different Take
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 15, 2009
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Aspiring Saudi filmmaker Mohammed al-Khalif is having a hard time
finding a leading woman for his short film, "Garbage Bag."
Partly, it is because Saudi Arabia does not allow unrelated men
and women to mingle and has no movie theaters or film schools, and
no culture of actors or acting.
And partly, it's the subject matter.
"Garbage Bag" is about a woman stuck in a public restroom because
her abaya, the black cloak women in Saudi Arabia must wear in
public, has been stolen. After an agonizing night in the restroom,
she fashions an abaya out of a black garbage bag and walks out.
"It's almost impossible to find a woman to act in a movie and
even harder to find someone willing to wear a garbage ...