How ‘Scales’ Director Made a Mermaid Fantasy About Body Positivity (Video) “It was the story of her accepting this body that society considers a source of shame and oppression,” Shahad ...

Drawing on Arabic poetry and folklore, notably the ancient Syrian legend of the sea goddess Atargatis, Ameen expands her 2013 short Eye & Mermaid into this subtly subversive critique of ...

Saudi Arabian filmmaker Shahad Ameen's "Scales" is a grim Arabic-language feminist parable set on a remote island.

One of Saudi Arabian director Shahad Ameen’s first films was “Eye & Mermaid,” a short about a girl who learns that her father’s job is to hunt and slaughter mermaids. It was a story about ...