The Station (المحطة)
Qumra Projects
/ Feature Narrative / Yemen, Jordan, Netherlands, France, Qatar
In Arabic
Rated: This film has not been rated.
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Synopsis
Layal runs a women-only petrol station in a gender-segregated, war-torn village in Yemen. It’s the inherited home in which Layal shields her 12-year-old brother Laith from recruitment and the war raging outside the station’s gates. Prepubescent Laith, however, is growing eager to escape the suffocating and emasculating walls of this women-only world. Today, Layal's estranged older sister Zainab arrives and poses a threat to Layal’s home and fuels Laith’s desire to become a man in the ‘real world'. Challenged by the demands of impatient women customers and Laith’s ever-growing eagerness to leave the station, the relationship between the three siblings reaches a breaking point.