Saify
(2024)
Year: 2024
Runtime: 110 мин
Country: Saudi Arabia
Director: Wael Abumansour
Cast: براء عالم, Aixa Kay, نور الخضراء, حسام الحارثي, Osama Al-Qass
Plot
At 40 years old, Saify Muhammed is a washed-up confidence trickster who owes money to everyone, including his ex-wife. Now he is trying his hand at blackmail. The year is 2000; Saify has a dilapidated music shop selling cassette tapes, including recordings of banned Islamic sermons he mistakenly thinks will turn an illicit profit. His sermon supplier is Al-Mahdi, shady religious advisor to the local bigwig Sheikh Asaad Aman, who has a name as a philanthropist. When Saify finds one tape containing a scandalous recording of the influential Sheikh Asaad, he thinks he’s finally in the money.