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 girl who lives in a distant 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, 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 passion for art and, by extension, for a greater life away from the village.www.goyangtoto-link.com