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ARRAY’s 15th film acquisition, Egyptian-American filmmaker Heidi Saman’s feature directorial debut, “Namour,” which made its world premiere at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival where the director won the festival’s LA Muse Award, premiered on Netflix yesterday, as the inclusive film collective previously announced.
Kicking off Women’s History Month (March), the film is also being released in a series of one-night and limited engagements across the country, starting on March 1st, including New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, Houston, Chapel Hill, Seattle and Honolulu, concurrent with its Netflix debut via Array Releasing, in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand territories.
Upcoming national tour engagement dates are as follows:
— 03/16 Seattle Ark Lodge Cinema presented by Sankofa Film Society
— 03/23 Chapel Hill Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History-University of North Carolina
— 03/30 Houston Houston Museum of African American Culture
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A sparse and stylized homage to the City of Angeles, “Namour” explores the complexities of personal responsibility versus moral convictions.
Steven Bassem is a young man going nowhere. His job as a valet driver for a fashionable restaurant brings him into regular contact with LA’s moneyed elite and their expensive automobiles, but Steven can’t shake the feeling that his temporary gig is somehow turning into his future. When Steven’s mother (Layla) announces that she’s selling the house - the only home Steven has ever known - because they can no longer afford it, Steven’s behavior starts to change in strange ways.
Featuring an international cast that includes star Karim Saleh (“Iron Man 2,” “Kingdom of Heaven”), as well as Waleed Zuaiter (“20th Century Women,” “London Has Fallen”) and new comer, Wedad Abdou, “Namour” chronicles the unraveling of Steven Bassem (Saleh) as he’s caught between his dead-end job and the demands of his Arab-American immigrant family.
“Writer-director Heidi Saman’s portrayal of frustration and anxiety within the American immigrant community is heartfelt yet elegantly understated in ‘Namour’,” said ARRAY’s Executive Director Tilane Jones in a previous press statement. “We’re excited to introduce Saman’s stirring debut feature film to an international film audience.”
A trailer for “Namour” is embedded below (poster above); check it out on Netflix right now!