Films in competition at the Saudi Film Festival

‘A Matter of Life and Death’ Director: Anas Batheef Starring: Sarah Taibah, Yaqoub Alfarhan Taibah also wrote this fantasy-tinged rom-com about Hayat, who is convinced she is cursed to die on her upcoming 30th birthday. By chance, she meets Youssef, a “brilliant, but emotionally detached” heart surgeon who has a unique medical condition: an unusually slow heartbeat. “Together, they plan a mad scheme to cheat death, igniting a chain of chaos, comedy, and an impossible love racing against time,” the synopsis states.