EXCLUSIVE: Saudi romantic comedy A Matter Of Life And Loss of life world premieres on the Crimson Sea Movie Competition this coming week, and Deadline can reveal the primary teaser.
Native stars Yaqoub Alfarhan (Scales, Norah) and Sarah Taibah (Mandoob) play an unlikely couple whose love blossoms towards the percentages within the Jeddah-set function, one of many quirkiest native romantic comedies to return out of Saudi Arabia because the lifting of its 35-year cinema ban in 2017.
Taibah performs Hayat, a superstitious younger lady who’s satisfied she is cursed, reverse Yaqoub as Youssef, a shy physician with a coronary heart situation that causes him to suppress his feelings.
Within the backdrop, Hayat is struggling to interrupt freed from her overbearing aunts. She finds herself unexpectedly drawn to Youssef, with their shared existential struggles bringing them nearer.
A Matter Of Life And Loss of life is the second function from Jeddah-based Yemeni director Anas Ba-Tahaf, who made waves along with his equally quirky 2021 first function Fay’s Palette.
The melodrama a few lady cloistered in her residence by a controlling brother, performed within the inaugural version of the Crimson Sea Movie Competition in 2021 as one of many first productions to return out of Saudi Arabia within the wake of the lifting of the cinema ban.
Taibah and Ba-Tahaf are long-time collaborators, with the actress showing in Fay’s Palette, and co-writing TV collection Jameel Jeddan, wherein she additionally starred as a lady who wakes up from a coma after 5 years.
First introduced on the Crimson Sea Movie Competition final 12 months, A Matter Of Life & Loss of life is produced by Cairo-based Movie Clinic and Dubai-based Entrance Row Productions in partnership with Saudi Arabian corporations Arabia Photos Group and Rotana Studios
