The film, which featured leading actors from the region (Aesha Balasem, Ziad Bakri, and Khalid Al Tarifi), won the "Best Short Film" award at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia. It had its world premiere at the Max Ophuls Film Festival (Germany) in 2021, during which the film was awarded the Jury Prize and the Audience Prize. At the Student Academy Awards 2021, the film got the Oscar Award Gold and was also nominated for an Academy Award.
Synopsis: As a direct consequence of the war, eight-year-old Tala is not allowed to leave her house. Her only link with the outside world is the television screen, but it does not last long: her father, Taher, will throw the TV out of the house following a TV ban issued by the government.
Fear, silence and boredom take over Tala, making her daily life unbearable.
She decides to steal a television and hide it. This risk-taking changes the course of the child's life and the one of her family.