Congratulations are in order for Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen, whose debut feature film “Scales” (Sayidat Al Bahr) won the Verona Film Club Award at the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival. It was dubbed the “most innovative film” in the Critics’ Week section, where it premiered. Set in a dystopian world, “Scales” is a fable about a small fishing village and the mermaids that live in its surrounding waters ...
