"Five years ago, Haifaa al-Mansour made history with her moving and critically-acclaimed drama Wadjda, making her not just the first female Saudi filmmaker, but the first director to have shot a feature film in the kingdom. At the time, the idea of Wadjda being released on home soil was ludicrous: its cinema and theaters had long since been closed following the country's adoption of strict ultra-conservative Islam in the early '80s. On April 18, 2018, however, a new cinematic dawn broke over the kingdom with the opening of Saudi Arabia's first cinema since the movie theater ban was lifted in December ... [Al-Mansour] wrote to The Hollywood Reporter with her thoughts on the cinema opening, the "seismic shift" now sweeping over her home nation and why nothing will be the same again.
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