FIASCO RUN
Genre
Comedy
Running time
13 minutes
Year
2023
Language
Arabic
Subtitle
English
Country
Saudi Arabia
Director
Sultan Rabea
Bio
Producer
Mohammed Alzubaidi
Cast
Ayman Mutahar, Fahad Alshahrani, Yasmeen Alkhamis, Thamer Alharbi, Abdulwahab Bin Shaddad, Bader Albalawi, Yazeed Almujawil, Abdulbaqi Ahmed
Scriptwriter
Sultan Rabea
After a long night out, Samer's efforts to lay down and sleep gets repeatedly interrupted by his family.
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