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- 2017
- First Run Features
- 1 h 18 m
- 2017
- First Run Features
- 1 h 18 m
Summary The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene.
Directed By: Amber Fares
- 2017
- First Run Features
- 1 h 18 m
- 2017
- First Run Features
- 1 h 18 m
Speed Sisters
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Summary The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene.
Directed By: Amber Fares
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Metascore
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
65
63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Director Amber Fares strikes a perfect balance, telling a righteous, uplifting story of triumph against the odds without ever losing sight of the bigger political picture.
Director Amber Fares finds a frankly astounding subject for her first feature-length doc, using the story of a few brave sportswomen to shine a bright headlamp on lives lived under occupation.
Subtly rebellious and defiantly optimistic, “Speed Sisters” masks the sound of gunshots with the roar of revving engines. For these women, driving symbolizes a freedom they can otherwise only imagine.
Speed Sisters is an eye-opening doc that succeeds in its goal of shattering stereotypes.
It’s not exactly hard-hitting stuff, and isn’t meant to be, but it spins an entertaining yarn.
Fares' film doesn't ever quite hit the same high-octane levels as its petrol head subjects but it is nevertheless a very unusual and encouraging representation of social change, defiance and self-determination.
This half-throttle documentary might better be called The Fast and the Uneventful.
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Release Date Feb 10, 2017
Duration 1 h 18 m
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Tagline Inside the car is another world.
Awards
Adelaide Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Vail Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
• 1 Nomination
