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The award-winning Qatari filmmaker, A.J.Al-Thani is the director and screenwriter of the short film The Black Veil. Al-Thani graduated from Northwestern University in communications and began her filmmaking career alongside Doha Film Institute when it was founded in 2010.
Al-Thani tells a very real narrative of what it's like for women who are oppressed within a marriage relationship and the struggle they find themselves in if they choose to escape.
Al-Thani uses her filmmaking expertise to create a compelling short story of a scary path toward freedom for a wife in distress. The road is a dangerous one that potentially can lead to death. The wife is willing to face danger to escape being held in a subservient relationship but is never sure if she will become a survivor. Every woman who attempts to escape has a detailed thought-out plan with the hope that she will be the survivor.
The Black Veil played in the TriBeCa Online Film Festival Library category called Without Borders.
Synopsis:
Married to an older Qatari man we observe the process of his young wife (Sana Al-Habib) who puts her life at risk in order to find her freedom from her husband who is the cause of an oppressive marriage relationship.