When The Shelves Hymn (2024)
After Mariam’s husband mysteriously disappears, she reluctantly takes their teenage son Saeed from their home in Jeddah to mountainous AIUla, intending to sell their family-owned antique shop. Saeed is sullenly resentful, detesting the move; Mariam struggles to stay in charge while she searches for the title documents she needs to make a sale. What she finds instead are unpaid bills, a video diary in which her husband confessed to severe depression and some newspaper clippings about suicide. It is a discovery that will change her outdated view of men’s role as she and her son together embrace a new, independent life.
Director:
Hanaa Saleh Alfassi
Writers:
Mana Almajd, Hanaa Saleh Alfassi, Jade.
![]() |
Mana Almajd as |
![]() |
Emad Amer as |
![]() |
Ayman Samman as |
| Directing | Hanaa Saleh Alfassi | Director |
| Production | Moayad Abualkhair | Producer |
| Production | Alwaleed Alsalhi | Producer |
| Production | Maia Malas | Producer |
| Production | Gianluca Chakra | Producer |
| Writing | Mana Almajd | Screenplay |
| Writing | Hanaa Saleh Alfassi | Screenplay |
| Writing | Jade | Screenplay |