6 days ago
EXCLUSIVE: Saudi romanticist comedy A Matter Of Life And Death is group to merchandise theatrically astatine location connected June 25 aft its planned outpouring merchandise was postponed owed to nan Iran War, and Deadline tin uncover a caller trailer
Local stars Yaqoub Alfarhan (Scales, Norah) and Sarah Taibah (Mandoob) play an improbable mates whose emotion blossoms against nan likelihood successful nan Jeddah-set feature, 1 of nan quirkiest section romanticist comedies to travel retired of Saudi Arabia since nan lifting of its 35-year cinema prohibition successful 2017.
Taibah plays Hayat, a superstitious young female who is convinced she is cursed, other Yaqoub arsenic Youssef, a awkward expert pinch a bosom information that causes him to suppress his emotions.
The image world premiered astatine Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival successful Jeddah past December and had been group for an April Release.
Regional Middle East supplier Front Row Filmed Entertainment was forced to put their distribution plans connected clasp pursuing nan outbreak of nan U.S.-Israel-Iran War astatine nan extremity of February.
Its caller section merchandise day will beryllium followed by a theatrical roll-out crossed Saudi Arabia’s Gulf neighbors arsenic good arsenic Egypt successful July.
First announced astatine nan Red Sea Film Festival successful 2024, A Matter Of Life and Death is produced by Cairo-based Film Clinic and Dubai-based Front Row Productions successful business pinch Saudi Arabian institution Arabia Pictures Group.
The characteristic is Anas Ba-Tahaf, whose 2021 drama Fay’s Palette, astir a woman cloistered successful her location by a controlling brother, was 1 of nan first Saudi features to beryllium made pursuing nan lifting of nan country’s 35-year cinema prohibition successful 2017.
