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Nora Al Awadh
Sara
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Selma
Khalid Abdulrhim
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Mohammed
Mohamed Othman
Himself
Nojoud Ahmed
Dr. Abeer
Khadeeja Mua'th
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Tareq Al Khaldi
Omar
Reema Mohammed
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Ismaee Nasser
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A review by Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots
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Written by Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots on Fri Mar 27 2020
The first Saudi woman to direct a feature film (“Wadjda”), Haifaa Al-Mansour, brings her unique voice and perspective to her follow-up movie, “The Perfect Candidate,” the story of a female doctor who decides to run for a local political office. The film lends an insider’s look at life in modern-day Saudi Arabia and the changing role of women in a country known for its restrictive gender customs.
Maryam (Mila Al Zahrani) is an ambitious young doctor working in a small town medical clinic. She’s well-educated and smart, yet she gets daily pushback from many of her male patients and has to work...
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