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Sawsan, is a 2019 Saudi movie, directed by Saliba Rishmawi, and starring Nisreen Yaseen, Maha Abu Farha Rishmaw, Aws El Zubaidyi. with a runtime of 10 minutes.
Sawsan is a Palestinian drama film centered on a twenty-two-year-old woman still living at home, suffocated by the daily friction with her parents and the constraints of family life. Reaching a breaking point, she decides to slip away and venture alone into the nightlife of Bethlehem city. What she finds there — an unexpected encounter — upends her sense of who she is and what she wants. Tender and observant, Sawsan is a nuanced portrait of young Palestinian womanhood navigating the tension between family expectation and the desire for personal freedom.
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