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

The film’s titular character, played by Saudi newcomer Maria Bahrawi, is an illiterate orphaned young woman who lives in a remote village where she faces an arranged marriage in 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 portray 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 slot login