Haifaa Al Mansour
Mar 10, 2020
3 minutes
Interview by FATIMA SHERIFF
Illustration by
MARINA ESMERALDO
s the first female film director from Saudi Arabia, Haifaa Al Mansour’s career has been built on breaking barriers. Her early, quietly radical documentaries about the women behind enforced veils, led to her entering the global stage with , about a young girl determined to ride a bicycle and, like her creator, overcomes the obstacles of restrictive gender roles to reach her goal. Her new film, is a
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