‘A Matter Of Life & Death’ Teaser: Sarah Taibah & Yaqoub Alfarhan Topline Quirky Saudi Romantic Comedy – Red Sea

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• She finds herself unexpectedly drawn to Youssef, with their shared existential struggles bringing them closer.
• A Matter Of Life And Death is the second feature from Jeddah-based Yemeni director Anas Ba-Tahaf, who made waves with his equally quirky 2021 first feature Fay’s Palette.
• The melodrama about a girl cloistered in her home by a controlling brother, played in the inaugural edition of the Red Sea Film Festival in 2021 as one of the first productions to come out of Saudi Arabia in the wake of the lifting of the cinema ban.
• Taibah and Ba-Tahaf are long-time collaborators, with the actress appearing in Fay’s Palette, and co-writing TV series Jameel Jeddan, in which she also starred as a girl who wakes up from a coma after five years.