Filmmaker Matty Brown’s dreamy thriller, set on an abandoned island, is big on mood, but fails to find its anchor. It is Jana’s point of view that guides the film, which explains why the details of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. director Matty Brown’s allegorical drama “The Sand Castle,” which sees Lebanese multi-hyphenate Nadine Labaki reunite on ...

The Gist: Little Jana (Riman Al Rafeea) has converted the scrub and sand of this island space and the blue-green sea that surrounds it into a fantastical world of whimsy and imagined castles. It’s her ...

Check out the trailer for the new film 'The Sand Castle,' starring Nadine Labaki, Ziad Bakri, Zain Al Rafeea, and Riman Al Rafeea. Directed by Matty Brown, the film comes to Netflix on Jan. 24, 2025.

Matty Brown with young stars of The Sand Castle Zain Al Rafeea (L), M Riman Al Rafeea (R) Getty Images The image of the lifeless body of two-year-old Kurdish-Syrian boy Alan Kurdi lying washed up on a ...

U.S. director Matty Brown’s allegorical drama “The Sand Castle,” which sees Lebanese multi-hyphenate Nadine Labaki reunite on screen with young “Capernaum” siblings Zain and Reman Al Rafeea – who are ...