Synopse
Mostly filmed using amateur actors and with a lot of room for improvisation, the film tells of the struggle by Yemenite women to survive. Layal has a petrol station only for women – a safe haven in a country racked by war. The rules are simple: no men, no weapons, no politics. When Layal’s younger brother is called up for military service, she meets her long alienated sister again. While her brother wishes for mothing more than to break free of his environment and become a "man", the two women together try and save the one life they can.
Regie
Sara Ishaq is a Yemeni-Scottish film-maker. Her debut short documentary Karama Has No Walls (2012) was nominated for an Oscar. Since 2015, she has been training film-makers in Yemen and in 2022 became head of the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk in Amsterdam. The Station is her debut feature.
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01.10.2026 21:00 Uhr
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Original Title: Al Mahattah
International Title: The Station
Category: Feature
Section: Kaleidoscope
Version & Subtitles: Arabic OV with German subtitles
Director: Sara Ishaq
Screenplay: Sara Ishaq, Nadia Eliewat
Cast/Protagonists: Manal Al-Mulaiki, Abeer Mohammed, Rashad Khaled, Saleh Al-marshahi, Fariha Hassan, Amal Esmail, Shorooq Mohammed, Randa Mohammed, Fatima Muthanna
Production country: Yemen, Jordan, France, Germany, Norway, Qatar
Year of Production: 2026
Length: 112 min
Producer: Nadia Eliewat, Nicolas Leprêtre
Production company: Screen Project, Ta Films, Georges Films
Cinematography: Amine Berrada
Sound: Tarek Abu Ghoush, Jan Schermer
Editor: Romain Namura
Music: Tessa Rose Jackson, Darius Timmer
Production Design: Nasser Zoubi
Costume Design: Zeina Soufan
Co-producer: Fred Burle, Sol Bondy
co-production company: One Two Films GmbH, Keplerfilm, Barentsfilm
World Sales: Paradise City Sales
Kontakt: Fred Burle / One Two Films GmbH
