A Matter of Life and Death

  • Saturday, Jul 25

Showtimes updated on Tuesday evenings
Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies

A Matter of Life and Death

Pre-recorded introduction with filmmaker Anas Ba-Tahaf

Haya grew up in the shadow of a curse’s promise that she would die at 30. After a series of failed attempts to end her life—an effort to take her fate into her own hands—she crosses paths with a brilliant but emotionally withdrawn surgeon. Youssef, who suffers from an abnormally slow heartbeat and only truly feels alive when he’s operating and holding a scalpel, might be just who Haya has been looking for. Her request that Youssef kill her kicks off a flowering relationship, and a surprisingly uplifting exploration of the existential struggles that plague so many on the precipice of entering their thirties.

“[O]ne of the quirkiest local romantic comedies to come out of Saudi Arabia since the lifting of its 35-year cinema ban in 2017.”
Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline

This film is part of the following initiatives:

This film is part of the Contemporary Arab Cinema series.



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