Norah

Norah

Film Notes

Original Title: id.

Country, year: Arabia Saudita, 2023
Language:
Duration: 94′
Color: colore

Director: Tawfik Alzaidi

Cast: Yaqoub Alfarhan, Abdullah Alsadhan, Maria Bahrawi

Screenplay: Tawfik Alzaidi

Photography: Shaun Harley Lee

Film editing: Mounir Soussi

Music: Omar Fadel

Production: Black Sugar Pictures, Mile Studios, Nebras Films

Premiere: italiana

Screening info

  Location: Cinema Astra | Date: 22/09/2024 Time 17.00

Lungometraggio | –

Synopsis

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 a concealed artist, 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 realizes she must leave, to find a place where she can be free to express her artistic self.

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