Part of Contemporary Arab Cinema

Directed by Anas Ba-Tahaf (2025)

With Sarah Taibah, Yaqoub Al-Farhan

Haya grew up in the shadow of a curse’s promise that she would die at 30. After a series of failed attempts to end her life—an effort to take her fate into her own hands—she crosses paths with a brilliant but emotionally withdrawn surgeon. Youssef, who suffers from an abnormally slow heartbeat and only truly feels alive when he's operating and holding a scalpel, might be just who Haya has been looking for. Her request that Youssef kill her kicks off a flowering relationship, and a surprisingly uplifting exploration of the existential struggles that plague so many on the precipice of entering their thirties.