Khalid Fahd is a Saudi award-winning writer and director. He began his career in Canada with the mini-series Haneen 2012. Khaled participated in local and international film festivals after his first short film The Investor 2017, he works as a creative director with media institutions and collaborates on feature film narratives. 'Valley Road' is his latest film. Read More

synopsis

Ali is perceived by his family and the people of the beautiful Saudi Arabian mountain village where he lives, Alwadi, as having a disability. Only his older sister Siham recognises that his difference is part of him; she sees him as perfect as he is. While Siham is away in the city studying at university, where she hopes to get a degree and then a job that will help haul her family out of poverty, their father, Nasser, decides to take Ali to a folk doctor in the valley below to be “cured”. During the journey, Ali gets lost in the middle of nowhere. Alone, he starts a new journey of his own, discovering that he can deal with fresh challenges in life as well as anyone else. An uplifting, emotional and enjoyable tale about how our perceived inadequacies can be our strengths. Read More

Highlights

Malmö Arab Film Festival, Sweden

Red Sea International Film Festival, Saudi Arabia

Rotterdam Arab Film Festival, Netherlands