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First Feature

Name: First Feature
Director: Bentley Brown
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-07-20
Duration: 14 min
Rating: 6.3

2018 · 0h 14m · Documentary

IMDb 6.3

Skip it. A 6.3 IMDb score signals this well-intentioned documentary loses its narrative thread despite a fascinating premise about filmmaking under censorship. The melancholic tone and anonymous accounts end up feeling more muddled than moving.

Plot

Working underground in the year before the legalization of cinema in Saudi Arabia, a team of mostly women makes its first feature film. Anonymous accounts of their experience are brought together in a melancholic narration. In the spirit of first films, a filmmaker documents the production in Jeddah with his first video camera from childhood.

Director: Bentley Brown

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