Netflix officially boarded “The Sand Castle” which sees Lebanese more syllables Nadine Labaki reunite on screen with the “Capernaum” brothers Zain and Reman Al Rafeea.

The streaming giant has set a global release date of January 25, 2025 for the highly anticipated thriller.

American director Matty Brown – whose short films have won awards – makes his feature debut with “The Sand Castle”, which is the story of an Arab family of four stranded on a seemingly idyllic island. There, the family begins to discover dark secrets that they struggle to hide from their youngest, Jana.

“As events spiral out of control and the line between reality and fiction blurs, the family is forced to face harsh truths and difficult choices, testing their resilience and hopes of returning home,” the synopsis provided .

The film’s ensemble cast also includes Palestinian actor Ziad Bakri (“Meet the Barbarians”).

Brown co-wrote “Sand Castle” with Yasmina Kharaja of Jordan and Egyptian-Qatari writer-director Hend Fakhroo. The film is likely to be released at the upcoming Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Gianluca Chakra’s Front Row Filmed Entertainment and Mario Jr. Haddad’s Empire Entertainment produced “Sand Castle” in association with Houston King’s HK Films and Mandy Ward’s Akward Productions, with Mayada Hiraki serving as executive producer.

The top “Sand Castle” below-the-line team consists of cinematographer Jeremy Snell (Netflix’s “Dirty Money”); Oscar-winning sound designer Martin Hernandez (“The Revenant”); editor Nacho Ruiz Capillas (“The Others,” “Loving Pablo”); and West original score composers Dylan Thordson and Kat Vokes, who wrote the score for M. Night Shyamalan’s “Split,” among other titles.

Front Row and Empire’s first production was the Arabic adaptation of the Italian hit concept comedy “Perfect Strangers”, which did very well after it was released as a Netflix original on the streamer in January 2022.