Dégradé

Tarzan and Arab Nasser, Palestinian twins, did not go unnoticed at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival (Critics’ Week) with “Dégradé” their first feature film. This comedy set in a hairdressing salon for women in Gaza under the bombs was released in April 2016.

A Palestinian adventure supported by Brittany

“Dégradé” is one of the first films to be backed by the Breizh Film Fund in January 2015 along with the Brittany Region (FACCA). This unprecedented public-private mix co-financed equally the post-production of the feature film, bringing Breton producer Gilles Padovani (.Mille et Une. Films) into the Nasser brothers’ adventure as co-producer. Therefore, sealing a great collaboration between Brittany and Palestine: a significant part of the post-production of the film was handled by the AGM Factory in Rennes.

Synopsis

A hot summer’s day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict. But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lioness from Gaza’s only zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores. Stuck in the salon, with the prospect of death drawing ever nearer, the women start to unravel. How will the day end? Will they lose their lives for the sake of “liberating the lioness”?