The Perfect Candidate (PG)

World Cinema at Storyhouse Running from
Last event: Wednesday 22 July 2020 at 8pm
  • £9.50 / £8.50 for screenings before 5pm (Members: £8.55 / £7.65)
    Aged Under 26: £7 / £6 (Members: £6.30 / £5.40)

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Directed by: Haiffa Al Mansour
Starring: Nora Al Awadh, Dae Al Hilali, Mila Al Zahrani, Khalid Abdulraheem, Shafi Alharthy, Tareq Al Khaldi

Maryam is an ambitious young doctor working in a small town clinic in Saudi Arabia. Despite her qualifications, she has to earn the respect of male colleagues and acceptance from her patients every day. After Maryam is prevented from traveling to Dubai in search of a better job, a bureaucratic mixup leads her to stumble on the application for her local city elections and she decides to run. Maryam enlists her two younger sisters to begin fundraising and planning campaign events. While they face the restriction of women’s traditional roles in the Kingdom at every turn, Maryam’s audacious candidacy starts to build momentum and challenges her conservative community. A tight race emerges between Maryam and her male opponent, as Maryam and her family mobilize their determination and creativity to move their traditional society forward. From the director of Wadjda.

 

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Certificate:

PG

Duration

Approx 104 mins

Time details

5 mins of trailers & adverts before the screening (not included in duration)

Languages:

Arabic/English with English Subtitles

Content Guidance:

Brief mild injury detail

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