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Barakah Meets Barakah

Showtimes

 
​4/27/2017  9:45PM

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Synopsis

Would you believe a beautiful romantic comedy from Saudi Arabia, the land where movie theaters aren’t even allowed? Director Mahmoud Sabbagh’s charmer has captured audience’s hearts at festivals around the world, and has opened the West’s eyes to love’s possibilities in the desert kingdom. Barakah is a humble municipal civil servant from Jeddah, and Bibi is a wild beauty, the adopted daughter of a rich couple who are distraught over their inability to have biological children. He’s also an amateur actor playing Ophelia in a local production of Hamlet, while she is an Instagram star always seeking to push the boundaries in her home and her country. In an environment hostile to dating of any kind, fate brings these two together.

​Starring internet sensation and Saudi comedian Hisham Fageeh, Barakah Meets Barakah is only the second Saudi Arabian entry for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in history.

About the film

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Theater, Oscar Submitted
Release Year: 2016
Runtime: 84 minutes
Country: Saudi Arabia
Languages: Arabic (with English subtitles)
Website: OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE
Director: Mahmoud Sabbagh
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      • The Breadwinner
      • The Cakemaker
      • Chasms and Bridges (short films)
      • Cloudboy
      • Crime + Punishment
      • Faces Places
      • A Fantastic Woman
      • Farmer of the Year
      • Gabriel and the Mountain
      • The Gold Seekers
      • Happy Birthday
      • I Am Not A Witch
      • In The Fade
      • El Inca
      • Indian Horse
      • Killing Jesús (Matar a Jesús)
      • Liyana
      • Loveless
      • Loving Vincent
      • Mademoiselle Paradis
      • Montparnasse Bienvenue
      • Number One
      • Radiogram
      • The Secret Ingredient
      • The Square
      • Through the Banks of the Red Cedar
      • Zama
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