Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It starts, as so many horrible things do, without even a glimmer of the terror to come. Young ...

Early on in “Huda’s Salon,” a tense, tricky psychological thriller from Palestinian writer-director Hany Abu-Assad, a woman named Reem (Maisa Abd Elhadi) races down the street in a panic, clutching ...

In Hany Abu-Assad’s pulpy thriller, two Palestinian women are trapped between political enemies that are united in their misogyny. By Devika Girish When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

A Palestinian political thriller called "Huda's Salon" centers on two women who face a terrible choice - betray yourself or your country. Film critic Bob Mondello says if it were only that simple. BOB ...

From two-time Palestinian/Dutch Academy Award nominee Hany Abu-Assad (“Omar”), “Huda’s Salon” tells the story of two Palestinian women whose lives are threatened by patriarchal forces out of their ...

“Do you think you’re living in Sweden?” asks the titular hairstylist of “Huda’s Salon” with a sigh, although her question is surely rhetorical: After all, both she and the captor who is conducting her ...

Huda Quhshi in her women only salon Le'Jemalik in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.Helayne Seidman Huda Quhshi in her women only salon Le'Jemalik in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Huda Quhshi in her women only salon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. IFC Films has acquired North American rights to “Huda’s Salon,” a drama written and directed by Hany Abu-Assad, the award-winning ...

Hany Abu-Assad’s gripping thriller, “Huda’s Salon” is based on true events. In Bethlehem, Reem (Maisa Abd Elhadi), a Palestinian, is getting her hair done by Huda (Manal Awad). But after she sips some ...

The filmmaker seems eager to twist "Huda's Salon" into a more tense outing. But what tension can there ever be when you already know how this will all end? It starts ...