Night Courier

Fahad is a man of fragile mental health living in Riyadh. He is thrown out of his job and needs money for his father's treatment. He starts working as a delivery courier, moving through the city all night, waiting at doors nobody sees. One night, during a delivery, an unexpected opportunity appears and Fahad finds a much faster way to make money. The problem is that this way is a serious crime in Saudi Arabia. Ali Kalthami shows Riyadh through the night: apartment corridors, shuttered shops, empty motorways, and the doors of people you do not know. The narrative moves between crime thriller and black comedy and its tone is deliberately unstable. Mohammed Aldokhei plays Fahad. The film became one of the recent Saudi productions to reach international festivals. Who it's for: Viewers who like Saudi and Gulf cinema, crime narratives set at night, and black humour. Who it's not for: The character's collapse is hard to watch and the film gives him no way out. The pace is also low in the first half.