Al Mahattah (THE STATION)
Al Mahattah (THE STATION)
Layal runs a women-only petrol station in Yemen: a safe haven in a war-torn country. There, the rules are simple: no men, no weapons, no politics. When Layal’s younger brother faces enlistment, she reunites with her estranged sister to save the one life they still can.
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Sara Ishaq’s ‘The Station’ Follows Women in War-Torn Country
Yemeni Scottish filmmaker Sara Ishaq, who was Oscar-nominated in 2012 for her short documentary “Karama Has No Walls,” is in post-production on her fiction feature debut, “The Station,”.
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‘Resilience, Sisterhood and Survival’
Sara Ishaq’s “The Station” won La Biennale di Venezia Prize (€5,000), given to the best film in post-production. Jurors Fatih Abay, Nathalie Jeung and Claudio Rapino were taken by the story of Layal, who runs a women-only fuel station in a segregated war-torn Yemeni town.
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Paradise City Sales Boards Yemen-Set Cannes Critics’ Week Title ‘The Station’
Paris-based Paradise City Sale has acquired world sales rights to Sara Ishaq’s debut feature The Station ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Critics’ Week in May.
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Sara Ishaq’s ‘The Station’ wins top prize at Venice’s Final Cut awards
The Station (Al Mahattah), the debut feature of Yemeni-Scottish filmmaker Sara Ishaq, has won the top prize at the Final Cut awards for projects in post-production at the Venice Film Festival’s industry platform Venice Production Bridge.
Genre: Drama
Language: Arabic
Duration: 112 min
Countries of co-production: Yemen, Jordan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar
Shooting Location: Jordan
STORY & SCREENPLAY: Sara Ishaq & Nadia Eliewat
DIRECTOR: Sara Ishaq
PRODUCED BY Nadia Eliewat
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Amine Berrada (AFC)
EDITOR: Romain Namura
MUSIC COMPOSERS: Tessa Rose Jackson &
Darius Timmer
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Nasser Zoubi
SOUND DESIGNER & RE-RECORDING MIXER: Jan Schermer
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Shivani Pandya Malhotra, Sangeeta Desai,
Ivan Samokhvalov, Alexander Tsekalo, Sata Cissokho, Alexandre Moreau, Gavriil Gordeev, Sergey Shishkin, Jon Kilik, Mohamed Siam, Sawsan Asfari
PRODUCERS: Nicolas Leprêtre, Fred Burle, Sol Bondy
CO PRODUCERS: Koji Nelissen, Derk-Jan Warrink, Ingrid Lill Høgtun,
Rula Nasser
PHOTOGRAPHY CREDIT: Hamzeh Abulragheb
CAST:
Manal Al-Mulaiki
Abeer Mohammed
Rashad Khaled
Saleh Al-marshahi
Fariha Hassan
Amal Esmail
Shorooq Mohammed
Randa Mohammed
Fatima Muthanna
PRODUCED BY: Screen Project (Jordan),
a Ta Films Company.
Georges Films (France)
One Two Films (Germany)
Keplerfilm (Netherlands)
Barentsfilm (Norway)
Setara Films (Yemen)
The Imaginarium Films (Jordan)
ARTE and ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel
IN ASSOCIATION WITH: Kalamata Film & Okko, Raxicon Private Capital Advisory.
WORLD SALES: Paradise City Sales
MENA: Film Clinic Indie Distribution
BENELUX: Paradiso Filmed Entertainment
