DUBAI: When Saudi multi-hyphenate Sarah Taibah speaks about her craft, there’s an electric conviction to her words. Taibah is an artist, writer, filmmaker and actor, and she describes her creative life as a continuous pursuit of inspiration.
“I think I’ve always been a creative person,” she tells Arab News. “In the beginning, I thought that being interested in many different things was me not being able to focus. But then I realized that I am an artist. So one of the major things, for me, is to do what I feel strongly about and whatever inspires me.”
“Hoba” tells the story of a devoted wife and mother — Amani (played by Bdoor Mohammed) — whose life begins to unravel when her husband returns home with a second wife, Zahra (Sarah Taibah), and an unseen dark force infiltrates her home. (Supplied)
That restless curiosity is what first nudged Taibah toward acting.
“I was doing my Master of Fine Arts degree in San Francisco, and one of my good friends asked me to act in her short film,” she says. “I just did it because I’m a creative person, not because I wanted to be an actress. And this short film really did well and went to so many festivals, and I fell in love with acting. It reminded me of all the memories that I kind of blocked from being a kid. I was always on stage in school. I’d always been in school plays and all that.”
