THE EXTRAORDINARY MISADVENTURES OF THE AMAZING BOY SUPER-BLURRY
Genre
Family, Comedy and Adventure
Running time
7 minutes
Year
2024
Language
Arabic
Subtitle
English
Country
Saudi Arabia
Director
Hassan El Hejaili
Bio
Producer
Hassan El Hejaili, Jomana Alquraish, Fahmi Farahat
Cast
Sultan Junaid, Ziyad Alghamdi, Jazi Bader, Amal Althaqafi, Aqeel Alzain
Scriptwriter
Hassan El Hejaili
Little Zezo and his rascal brother are horsing around in the kitchen when the older boy discovers something amazing: he can put his hand into boiling tea without getting burnt. It is only the first of a series of strange changes that are about to come over him, earning him the name Super-Blurry Boy, but nobody seems to notice. Sister Nora just wants the boys out of the way; his parents are too busy arguing to see what is happening to their boy. By nightfall, he will have discovered a super-power nobody could have imagined. A whimsical comedy, shot in black and white, in the joyous spirit of early cinema.
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