Netflix announces first Kuwaiti series

Netflix’s first Kuwaiti challenge can be a dramedy following the highs and lows of marital life.

The collection, titled The Cage, can be launched on the streaming platform on September 23. The present options a number of common Kuwaiti skills together with Khaled Ameen, Hussain AlMahdi, Rawan Mahdi, Lamya Tareq and Hessah Al-Nabhan.

Ameen portrays a social counsellor who’s working with a married couple — performed by AlMahdi and Mahdi — to assist them higher talk and empathise with one another in an effort to save lots of their marriage. Nevertheless, because the counsellor helps them rekindle their relationship, he faces struggles in his personal private life as properly.

The eight-episode present will hint the evolution of their relationships throughout a decade. With its light-hearted tone, the collection goals to supply a contemporary tackle how marital challenges are portrayed in Arab drama.

The Cage is produced by Abdullah Boushahri, who is understood for Europa and Al Namous. It’s directed by Jasem Al-Muhanna, the filmmaker behind Alnamous, a Kuwaiti present set within the Seventies that revolves across the mysterious disappearance of a rich businessman and patriarch.

This challenge is simply the start of Netflix’s ambitions in Kuwait. The streaming platform has introduced it’s engaged on one other challenge set within the Gulf nation. Nevertheless, although it guarantees to star a number of high-profile skills and can be stuffed with “thrilling twists and turns”, Netflix is being tight-lipped about what the present, or movie, can be about.

Netflix has been behind quite a few Arabic Unique collection, beginning with 2019’s Jinn, which was directed by Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya and Amin Matalqa, and AlRawabi College for Women, directed by Tima Shomali, which was a success when it got here out in 2021.

Over the previous two years, the streaming platform has additionally elevated its library of Arabic movies, creating collections to advertise award-winning options and shorts.

Earlier this yr, it launched an Arabic remake of Good Strangers, starring Lebanese director and actress Nadine Labaki, Egyptian star Mona Zaki, Eyad Nassar, in addition to Georges Khabbaz, Adel Karam, Fouad Yammine and Diamand Bou Abboud.

Up to date: September 01, 2022, 12:59 PM