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Hobal (2024)
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Original name: هوبال
Genre: Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The Saudi family is following strict instructions from their grandfather to remain confined in the desert during the early 1990s. A series of events shakes the family's foundation and they find them in a struggle between life and death.
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, grim, psychological, period drama
Plot:
desert, isolation, family conflict, survival, family drama, tradition, confined, loneliness, moral dilemma, resilience, claustrophobia, family secret, minimalism, coming of age, nomad, symbolism, family secrets, mystery
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
saudi arabia
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