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A Qatari woman from a dissected family has moved and settled in London. When she is unexpectedly appointed head of her family's struggling perfume business, she rises to the challenge of saving the company and mending her broken past.
'Parijat' is an enthralling drama that explores a Qatari woman's efforts to save her family's third-generation perfume business. Newlywed Sahira's life in London is suddenly disrupted when her grandfather dies. Upon returning to Qatar for his funeral, she is faced with the responsibility of taking over the lead of the ailing company from her erratic father and restore her grandfather's legacy. Driven by the fear of being outrun by her fiercest competitor, the Al-Gaoud family, Sahira enters a dangerous alliance. Coinciding with the birth of her first son, she launches Parijat, a scent that temporarily re-establishes her company's leading position in the Arabian Gulf. Determined to defeat the powers that are set to undermine her, she unleashes a ruthless perfume war.

Credits

Director
Hend Fakhroo
Screenwriter
Caroline Palla

About the Director

Hend Fakhroo
Hend Fakhroo is a Qatari writer and director. Hend graduated with honours in 2005 from St Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. She directed her first short ‘His Name’ in 2012 and her second ‘The Waiting Room’ in 2016. Both have done well on the festival circuit. Hend has been developing her first feature, ‘Behind Closed Doors’, for three years and has participated in the Hezayah writing lab with

Screenwriters

Screenwriter
Caroline Palla
Caroline Palla is a visual artist and screenwriter from Zurich. She graduated from Zurich University of the Arts with an extensive photographic series showing the contents of common people‘s medicine cabinets, titled 'Going Inside'. In her succeeding projects called '127 – Imagine a golden piggy bank with no one to spare a dime' and 'The Yen-Yen: Thirtysix Drum Sets', Palla further developed her o
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