Title: Hala
Rating: R
Directed by: Minhal Baig
Written by: Minhal Baig
Starring: Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack Kilmer, Anna Chlumsky, Purbi Joshi, Azad Khan, and Gabriel Luna
Release Date: 12/6/2019
Running Time: 94 minutes
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Hala is her father’s pride and joy. Dutiful and academically gifted, she skillfully navigates both her social life as a teen in Chicago and her obligations as an only child to Pakistani immigrants. With high-school graduation looming, however, Hala is bursting with sexual desire. When she meets Jesse, a classmate who shares her love for poetry and skateboarding, their romance is complicated by her Muslim faith and a father who is prepared to arrange her marriage according to their family’s cultural tradition. As Hala begins to challenge these customs, her parents’ own lives start to unravel, testing the power of Hala’s flourishing voice.
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