Front Row/KNCC and Empire will distribute the film in the Gulf and Levant.
Netflix will release the Arabic remake of Perfect Strangers, starring Lebanese filmmaker and actress Nadine Labaki and Egyptian actress Mona Zaki, on January 20.
Perfect Strangers, the first Arabic Netflix film based on the 2016 Italian hit Perfetti sconosciuti, tells the story of seven close friends who get together for dinner and decide to play a game that involves them placing their cell phones on the dinner table, and agreeing to openly share every call, text and voice message as it comes. What starts out as fun, quickly unfolds into an uncharted path of untold secrets that reveals more than what they wish to share.
The Arabic version of the most remade film in cinema history with 18 remakes, features a pan-Arab cast coming together for the first time including Eyad Nassar, Georges Khabbaz, Adel Karam, Fouad Yammine and Diamand Abou Abboud. Directed by Wissam Smayra, Perfect Strangers marks Wissam’s debut as a film director.
The film is produced by Front Row Filmed Entertainment, Film Clinic, Empire Entertainment and Yalla Yalla and is the first of many films produced by Front Row as part of a first-look deal signed with Netflix.
The film will be available to watch in 190 countries.
