The first director of Saudi Arabia will be the one who represents said country in the Oscar with the film «Green bicycle«.
The filmmaker who this year has been part of the jury of the Venice Film Festival this year, he presented the film the year before in one of the parallel sections of the Venetian festival where he won three awards.
«Green bicycle»Is the first feature film made and shot in Saudi Arabia, and Haifaa Al-Mansour had many difficulties to carry out the film due to the fact that she was a woman, at the time she even said that the exterior sequences were shot from a van communicating by walkie-talkie.
The plot of the film is based on the life of the director's niece Haifaa Al Mansour, a ten-year-old girl who wants a bicycle so she can compete in races with a friend, something that is not well seen in her country.
It's the first time that Saudi Arabia It will compete for the Oscar and it seems that it has a serious chance, not only because of the quality of the film but because of what it could mean that Al-Mansour won the award.
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