Stockholm Film Festival

Being Saudi Arabia’s first feature film, this comedy-drama has stirred up a lot of controversy, especially in it’s country of origin where cinemas are still banned. Through the eyes of a Saudi middle class family you are given a well-needed insight into a society usually surrounded by myths and prejudices.The ultra-conservative Khaled wants his sister Sahar to marry his ”righteous and God-fearing” friend Waddah. Sahar on the other hand, has no plans what so ever to quit her job as a journalist and seems much more interested in Sultan, a director of experimental theatre and also a close friend of the family.Funded by reform-minded Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and starring Jordan actress Fatima Al-Hawsani, as well as Saudi hot-shot Hisham Abdulrahman, Keif al-hal is something so rare as a feel-good movie with a social awareness. It embodies the tension between moderates and religious extremists in the modern Saudi society, but does so in a refreshingly unorthodox way.DAVID FUKAMACHI REGNFORS

Premiärstatus

Nordisk premiär

Medverkande

Turky Al Yousef, Hisham Al Huwaish, Khaled Sami, Mais Hamdan

Producent

Ayman Halawani

Manus

Belal Fadel

Foto

Paul Mitchnick

Musik

Gassan Rahbani

Talat språk

Arabic

 

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