Festival des trois continents
She began her filmmaking career with three shorts, "Who?", "The Bitter Journey" and "The Only Way Out". "The Only Way Out" won prizes in the United Arab Emirates and in the Netherlands. She followed these with the documentary "Women Without Shadows", which deals with the hidden lives of women in Arab States of the Persian Gulf. It was shown at 17 international festivals. The film received the Golden Dagger for Best Documentary in the Muscat Film Festival and a special jury mention in the fourth Arab Film Festival in Rotterdam. Haifaa al-Mansour was a guest at the 28th Three Continents Festival in Nantes, France.