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 girl who lives in a remote village the place she faces an arranged marriage in which she might be trapped and has a necessity for self expression. She intersects with an artist named Nader, performed 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 art and, by extension, for a greater life away from the village.goyangtoto login