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

The film’s titular character, performed by Saudi newcomer Maria Bahrawi, is an illiterate orphaned younger woman who lives in a distant village where she faces an organized marriage by which she shall be trapped and has a need for self expression. She intersects with an artist named Nader, played 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 better life away from the village.goyangtoto link alternatif