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Dec 6, 2019 · Hala: Directed by Minhal Baig. With Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack Kilmer, Gabriel Luna, Purbi Joshi. Muslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own.
Nov 22, 2019 · Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Following the ordinary beats of a teen’s everyday life, writer/director Minhal Baig ’s gentle and attentive sophomore feature “Hala” possesses something inherently extraordinary by just being about a young, female Muslim-American.
Seventeen-year-old Pakistani American teenager Hala (Geraldine Viswanathan) struggles to balance desire with her family, cultural, and religious obligations. As she comes into her own, she grapples with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
Hala is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Minhal Baig. The film was screened in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and was released in a limited theatrical release on November 22, 2019, followed by digital streaming on December 6, 2019, by Apple TV+. The film received generally positive ...
Seventeen-year-old Pakistani American teenager Hala struggles to balance desire with her family, cultural and religious obligations. As she comes into her own, she grapples with a secret that ...
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Nov 21, 2019 · By Robert Abele. Nov. 20, 2019 5:02 PM PT. A straightforward film about people we rarely get movies about, “Hala” is writer-director Minhal Baig’s sincerely dramatized evocation of a Muslim ...
Nov 21, 2019 · As Hala tests the boundaries of faith and sexual desire (her name means “halo” in Arabic, and it feels like a burden), the movie is unsparing about gender roles and the awkwardness of first ...
