Haifaa Al Mansour
Haifaa Al Mansour ( Arabic هيفاء المنصور, DMG Haifāʾ al-Manṣūr ; * August 10, 1974 in Al Zulfi , Saudi Arabia ) is a Saudi Arabian director , screenwriter and filmmaker .
Life and accomplishments
Al Mansour was born in the Islamic- conservative Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the eight of twelve children of a lawyer and poet, and grew up there in the small town of Al Zulfi in a family environment with access to magazines, books and novels. She later studied English literature in Cairo at the American University and, after her marriage to Brad Niemann in 2007, at a film school in Sydney to do her master's degree.
After completing her studies, she made three short films and one documentary film . The German-Saudi co-production Das Mädchen Wadjda (2012) is their first feature film and is considered to be the first feature film ever shot entirely in Saudi Arabia. On filming locations outside the studios, she had to give her instructions via walkie-talkie from a minibus. On September 9, 2017, her biography Mary Shelley premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Haifaa Al Mansour now lives with her two children and her husband, a US diplomat, in Manama , Bahrain .
Awards
For the girl Wadjda :
- Special Prize of the Peace Prize of German Films - Die Brücke 2013 (Director)
- Fritz Gerlich Film Prize 2013
- Kant World Citizen Award 2016
- DJLP 2016 in the children's book category for the novel version of the film Das Mädchen Wadjda
Filmography
- 2005: Women Without Shadows (documentary)
- 2012: The girl Wadjda
- 2017: Mary Shelley
- 2019: The Society
- 2019: The perfect candidate (The Perfect Candidate)
Web links
- Haifaa Al Mansour in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biographical information of the production company Razor Film
- Video Haifaa Al Mansour in the ZDF interview (English) in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 27, 2014.
- Haifaa al-Mansour: Saudi Arabia's first female director portrait on brigitte .de
- Al Mansour's documentary “Women Without Shadows” at onlinefilmhome.dk
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e spelling according to Arabic cinema “Even small steps have to be celebrated” , Der Tagesspiegel from September 1, 2013, accessed December 22, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Haifaa Al Mansour on IMDB , accessed March 14, 2020.
- ↑ 3sat.de: Contradictory Reality. Haifaa Al Mansour's film "Wadjda" from September 10, 2012. Accessed August 24, 2013.
- ↑ a b "I felt invisible as a woman" , kurier.at from August 24, 2013, accessed on August 24, 2013.
- ↑ a b cinemaxx.de: Haifaa Al Mansour. Brief info ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
- ↑ SZ, June 10, 2014, p. 10.
- ↑ filmfest-muenchen .de: Peace Prize of German Films - The Bridge ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
- ↑ ndr .de Fritz Gerlich Prize for NDR co-production "Das Mädchen Wadjda" . Accessed on August 24, 2013.
- ↑ razor-film.de: The girl Wadjda. Directed by: Biography Haifaa Al Mansou Retrieved August 24, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Al Mansour, Haifaa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | هيفاء المنصور (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saudi Arabian director, screenwriter and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saudi Arabia |