{"id":2254408,"date":"2026-01-28T12:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2254408"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:53:24","slug":"bill-nighy-and-makram-j-khoury-to-star-in-a-town-in-nova-scotia-from-fremont-director-babak-jalali-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bill-nighy-and-makram-j-khoury-to-star-in-a-town-in-nova-scotia-from-fremont-director-babak-jalali-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Nighy and Makram J. Khoury to Star in \u2018A Town in Nova Scotia\u2019 From \u2018Fremont\u2019 Director Babak Jalali (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Production on Babak Jalali<\/a>\u2019s next feature \u201cA Town in Nova Scotia<\/a>\u201d is now underway.<\/p>\n

Bill Nighy<\/a> leads the cast as Leon<\/a>, a widowed man living in a block of council flats in Liverpool. Makram J Khoury<\/a> plays his best friend Saleh<\/a>. Shooting commenced in and around the city of Liverpool earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Town in Nova Scotia<\/a>\u201d marks the fifth feature from Iranian-British director Jalali, best known for \u201cRadio Dreams,\u201d which won the top honor at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2016, and \u201cFremont<\/a>,\u201d which premiered in Sundance in 2023, landed a British Independent Film Award nomination and earned him the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards 2024.<\/p>\n

The film was co-written with Carolina Cavalli<\/a> who collaborated with Jalali on \u201cFremont<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA Town in Nova Scotia<\/a>\u201d is being produced by Na\u00efma Abed<\/a> and \u00c9milie Georges<\/a> for Paradise<\/a> City, and Jennifer Monks<\/a> for The Fold. The film is financed by BBC Film<\/a>,…<\/p>\n

See full article at Variety – Film News<\/svg><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Production on Babak Jalali\u2019s next feature \u201cA Town in Nova Scotia\u201d is now underway. Bill Nighy leads the cast as Leon, a widowed man living in a block of council flats in Liverpool. Makram J Khoury plays his best friend Saleh. Shooting commenced in and around the city of Liverpool earlier this month. \u201cA Town […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2254409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2254408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bill-Nighy-and-Makram-J-Khoury-to-Star-in-\u2018A.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254410,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254408\/revisions\/2254410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}