ME & AYDAROUS
Genre
Comedy and Drama
Running time
8 minutes
Year
2022
Language
Arabic
Subtitle
English
Country
Saudi Arabia and United States of America (USA)
Director
Sara Balghonaim
Bio
Producer
Salman Almusaad, Raed Alsemari, Maryam Sindi
Cast
Ida Alkusay, Saleh Alshirian, Ballah Mohammed Alfadhel
Scriptwriter
Sara Balghonaim
Jude manages to coerce her disapproving family chauffeur, Aydarous, into taking her to meet a date, but he is not going to be deflected from letting her know he doesn’t approve. Harking back to 20 years to a time when young women in Saudi Arabia were more restricted than they are now, the film is entirely filmed in a cramped van: for many girls of that generation, the nearest thing there was to a private space, albeit with a chaperone. Over the course of a night, Jude must find creative ways to get rid of Aydarous so that she and her boyfriend can have some time together.
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