Drama · Comedy
The Book of Sun
In 2010, at the peak of the Saudi YouTube movement, high school senior Husam finds himself drawn into the world of video production. He’s joined in his pursuit by his best friend Maan, their one-time foe Ibrahim, and Orabi a teacher with a passion for filmmaking. In the middle of their senior year, they set out to produce a no-budget horror movie – a wild adventure that will put their futures at risk.
Top Cast
Baraa Alem
حسام الخياط
Sohayb Godus
محمد عرابي
Nadia Malaika
والدة حسام
Faris Godus
مجدي
Ismail Alhassan
معن بنجر
Ahmed Al-Saddam
ابراهيم فوزان
Nawaf Alshubaili
مصلح السويدي
Directed by
Faris Godus
Reviews
ayaa1977
9/1/2020
The Book of Sun is both a high school coming-of-age comedy and a film about guerrilla filmmaking, and it nails it in both areas. The story is very entertaining from start to finish and invokes an atmosphere I have enjoyed in films like Bowfinger and The Disaster Artist without actually being anything like either films. Here is a film that was truly made for the local sensibility and very true to that, yet I believe would be a smashing success has it been given the chance to play internationally. The filmmaking is very well done, and the camera shots are smart and dynamic without being flashy. The filmmakers smartly imploys music, animations, outdoors shoots, and camera flourishes in service of telling a really good story. Set in 2010, it would have been a tall order recreating that time an
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