A young mother in Bethlehem pays an ordinary visit to Huda's salon. However, the visit turns nightmarish when she discovers she’s been blackmailed by Huda into working for the Israeli Shin Bet secret service in the West Bank. When Huda herself is then kidnapped by resistance fighters and subjected to interrogation by her abductor, it becomes harder to distinguish between protagonist and antagonist, collaboration and resistance, loyalty and betrayal. The  impact of the Shin Bet in Omar is newly interpreted in this film from the woman’s perspective, which director Abu-Assad says was originally his wife’s idea. 

Huda’s Salon  (2021, 91 min)

Directed by Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now 2005, Oscar-nominated Omar 2017)