“Hala” has found a home. Written and directed by Minhal Baig and based on her short of the same name, the coming-of-age story just premiered at Sundance. Apple scooped up worldwide rights to the pic, which counts Jada Pinkett Smith among its exec producers. Deadline confirmed the acquisition.

“Blockers'” Geraldine Viswanathan toplines “Hala,” playing a 17-year-old high school senior raised in a conservative Muslim home. Struggling with a family secret and emerging feelings for a classmate (Jack Kilmer, “Palo Alto”), Hala finds herself torn between different worlds.

Overbrook Entertainment and Endeavor Content adopted the inclusion rider during production of the pic. Women served in various department head positions and comprised 75 percent of critical below-the-line roles.

“Hala” marks Baig’s feature directorial debut. Its screenplay made the 2016 Black List. “After my father passed away, I moved back home to live with my family in Chicago. It was in that period of two years that I started to reflect on my childhood,” Baig told us. “A difficult transition took place at the end of my senior year in high school. My relationship with my mother was very contentious at the time. I felt like I was straddling the line between cultures and never really succeeding at either. That experience served as the foundation for the script that I began writing that ultimately became the film ‘Hala.'” The writer, director, and producer hopes audiences “leave the theater feeling that they can either recognize themselves or people they know personally in ‘Hala.’ My aim has been to make a very culturally specific story with universal themes,” she explained.

Baig’s other credits include shorts “Pretext” and “After Sophie.”

Head over to Sundance’s website to check out Hala’s screening dates and times.