NORAH

NORAH

Director: Tawfik Alzaidi

Script: Tawfik Alzaidi

Camera: Shaun Harley Lee

Design: Abdel Nour

Music: Omar Fadel

Edit: Mounir Soussi

Cast: Yaqoub Alfarhan, Maria Bahrawi, Abdullah Alsadhan

Producers: Tawfik Alzaidi, Sharif Al-Majali

Production: TwentyOne Entertainment, Black Sugar Pictures Production

Special effects: Nebras Films

Year: 2024

Timing: 95 min

Censored: 18+

Set in a small remote Saudi Arabian village, in the 90s when artistic expression was banned, “Norah” is a story about the basic human need to communicate through art, in all its forms. Nader, a new schoolteacher and an artist in secret, arrives at the village and meets Norah, a young woman who ignites the creativity inside him and inspires him to paint again. At great risk, they develop a delicate connection and a quiet bond. Nader enlightens Norah on the wider world outside of her tiny community and she realises she must leave, to find a place where she can be free to express her artistic self.