Film 2024
Basma
A homecoming shaped by family silence
- Country collection
- Saudi Arabia
- Original title
- بسمة
- Director
- Fatima Al-Banawi
- Year
- 2024
Editorial profile. Availability on LAREINE TV has not been confirmed.
Story, without spoilers
A Saudi student returns from abroad to her family in Jeddah. What should be a familiar homecoming becomes a difficult encounter with truths that her relatives have kept from her, changing how she understands the people closest to her.
Context & recognition
Fatima Al-Banawi both directs and stars in this 2024 family drama, developed with support from the Red Sea Fund.