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Fishbowl

Genre Mix
Screening Date 5th December 2024
Director Reema Almajid
Duration 14 minutes
About Director

Reema AlMajid is an accomplished Saudi filmmaker who has made significant contributions to the industry throughout her career. She has showcased her talents as a writer, director, and producer, working on numerous noteworthy films, and TV series. Reema has served as a producer for the Saudi films "Meal" (2023) and feature documentary "Memories from the North" (2021), in addition to her role as a production and script supervisor for the Ramadan TV series "Al-Zahiriyah" (2022), "Qorrat Aynik" (2023), and "Ya Hali" (2024), among other projects. Reema’s talent shone through with her experimental short film Fishbowl” (2023), which garnered recognition by winning the Daw' Film Competition, organized by the Saudi Ministry of Culture, in 2019. Her exceptional talent was further acknowledged when one of her scripts received a nomination from the Middle East Media Initiative (MEMI), leading to a six-week special development grant at the renowned University of

Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts in 2022. Currently, Reema holds a full-time position at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, where she utilizes her creative skills to write and direct educational and motion graphics videos centered around health and well-being. Her outstanding achievements extend to multiple accolades at the esteemed Waai Award, organized by the Saudi Ministry of Health.

Synopsis
After years of suppressing her dream, a passionate screenwriter (Alia) decides to film a story she wrote and turn it into a film, surprisingly she will find herself confronting her inner fears, which embodied as a reality in front of her in every scene of the film. At first, Alia decides to inform her boss, who is surprised at the end of the film that he is her arrogant husband, who shocks her with his reaction, and she has supported him for years in his work. Then she faces the various stages of her life, starting with the elementary phase in school and confronting her authoritarian teacher and her stereotyped classmates, then passing through the secondary phase and confronting her friend plus the beginning of her marriage and her conflict with society and the family. Alia will pass by a soul journey with herself to control herself and turn the scales toward herself. Some symbols, such as the fish tank, will
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