"Sukkar" Gets Streaming Date

Egyptian family musical film "Sukkar" will make its streaming debut exclusively on the "Shahid" streaming platform on Sunday, December 24.

The film draws inspiration from U.S. writer Jean Webster’s epistolary novel “Daddy-Long-Legs” and is touted as the Arab world’s first musical film in the Western canon.

It hit cinemas across the Middle East and North Africa on October 12 by Beirut-based Empire Entertainment, which is one of the region’s top movie distributors. 

“Sukkar” features singer Hala Turk, who rose to prominence after being an “Arabs Got Talent” contestant in 2011, in the lead role alongside a wide range of new young talents from the Arab world.

The cast also includes Magda Zaki, Mohamed Tharwat, Reham Elshanawany, Yasmina, Mohamed Harby, Moataz Hesham, and others.

The film is the first entry in a franchise of the same name and is scripted by Kuwaiti writer Heba Mishari Hamadai, helmed by Egyptian director Tamer Mahdy, and produced by Saudi-owned broadcasting powerhouse MBC Group in its first.

“Sukkar” also features original songs penned by Hamada and scored by Egyptian composer Ehad Abdel Wahed.

The film's lead producer is Samar Akrouk, the group director of production at MBC Group, alongside MBC executive producer Lara Ghazal Nassif and MBC producer Alaa Awada, with executive producer Tamer Mortada and producer Mostafa Al Awadi from Egypt’s Aroma Productions.