BRIDES to premiere at Sundance

BRIDES, a feature film written by Suhayla El-Bushra and produced by Neon Films, will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2025! It follows two teenage girls in search of freedom, friendship, and belonging as they run away from their troubled lives with a misguided plan of traveling to Syria.

Directed by Nadia Fall in her first feature, BRIDES explores the irreducible challenges of teenage girlhood through a boldly specific sociopolitical lens. Ebada Hassan and Safiyya Ingar star as Doe and Muna: girls on the cusp of adulthood looking to escape the pervasive minoritization and othering in their native U.K. by any means necessary. They embark on a transformative journey entangled with diverse provocations that complicate their conceptions of identity, faith, and positionality at every scale.

BRIDES is showing at Sundance January 23rd-February 2nd, and is also available online for the public January 30th–February 2nd.