15 Apr Saudi Arabia Scores First Cannes Choice Slot With Drama ‘norah’

Saudi Arabia Scores First Cannes Choice Slot With Drama ‘norah’

The film’s titular character, played by Saudi newcomer Maria Bahrawi, is an illiterate orphaned young girl who lives in a distant village where she faces an arranged marriage during which she might be trapped and has a necessity for self expression. She intersects with an artist named Nader, performed by Saudi star Yaqoub Alfarhan (“Rashash”), who has given up painting and moved to the village to be a schoolteacher. This chaste encounter unleashes in “Norah” a ardour for artwork and, by extension, for a greater life away from the village.goyangtoto