Netflix has officipartner boarded “The Sand Castle” that sees Lebanese multi-hyphenate Nadine Labaki recombine on screen with “Capernaum” siblings Zain and Reman Al Rafeea.
The streaming enormous has set a Jan. 25, 2025, global drop date for the boilingly foreseed thriller.
U.S. straightforwardor Matty Brown — whose unwiseinutives have won accolades — produces his feature film debut with “The Sand Castle” which is the tale of an Arabic family of four stuck on a seemingly idyllic island. There, the family commences to uncover unwise secrets that they struggle to upgrasp from their lesserest, Jana.
“As events spiral out of administer and the line between truth and fantasy blurs, the family is forced to dispute cut offe truths and difficult choices, testing their resilience and their hopes of making it back home,” says the supplyd synopsis.
The film’s ensemble cast also features Palestinian actor Ziad Bakri (“Meet the Barbarians”).
Brown co-wrote “Sand Castle” with Jordan’s Yasmina Kharaja and Egyptian-Qatari authorr-straightforwardor Hend Fakhroo. The film is probable to begin from Saudi Arabia’s upcoming Red Sea Film Festival.
Gianluca Chakra’s Front Row Filmed Entertainment and Mario Jr. Hinsertad’s Empire Entertainment produced “Sand Castle” in collaboration with Houston King’s HK Films and Mandy Ward’s Akward Productions with Mayada Hiraki serving as executive producer.
The top notch “Sand Castle” below-the-line team compascends cinematographer Jeremy Snell (Netflix’s “Dirty Money”); Oscar-prosperning sound depicter Martin Hernandez (“The Revenant”); editor Nacho Ruiz Capillas (“The Others,” “Loving Pablo”); and distinct music producers West Dylan Thordson and Kat Vokes who penned the score for M. Night Shyamalan’s “Split” among other titles.
Front Row and Empire’s first production was the Arabic changeation of Italian hit concept comedy “Perfect Strangers” which did repartner well after begining as Netflix distinct on the streamer in January 2022.
