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JEDDAH: The Red Sea Film Festival Foundation recently announced the recipients of the Red Sea Fund’s 2022 production and post-production funding cycles. Thirty-six winning films were selected from different countries including Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East and Africa. Filmmakers will receive grants to help complete films that shed a light on important narratives, and

JEDDAH: “In a very male-dominated Arab filmmaking industry, the passionate and visionary Nayla Al-Khaja was determined to cut through the status quo and establish a name for her own,” read a tweet promoting the August issue of Arabian Moda magazine. Coming from a Western media outlet, misconceptions such as this might be understandable, but when it comes from an Arab magazine,

A short program featuring 10 artist films from Gulf that explore cultural shifts, digital transmission & speculative futures curated Róisín Tapponi!

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JEDDAH: Cinematic masterpieces and their creators flocked to Jeddah for the long-awaited Red Sea International Film Festival. After nearly two years on hold, the star-studded event finally rolled out the red carpet in the Kingdom’s beating cultural heart: Jeddah’s historic downtown area known as Al-Balad. With homes dating back at least three centuries in the backdrop, the

‘Huda’s Salon’ Hany Abu-Assad has long been one of Palestine’s most lauded filmmakers, receiving an Oscar nomination for his now-classic 2005 film “Paradise Now,” and another for 2013’s “Omar.” Both movies chronicled men struggling under occupation, uncertain of how to best live their lives for themselves, their families, or their country. With “Huda’s Salon,” Abu-Assad

DUBAI: Kicking off this year’s Horizons of Arab Cinema section at the ongoing Cairo Film Festival is an omnibus film called “Becoming,” which is a collaboration between Saudi female directors. Playing in an Out-of-Competition slot, directors Sara Mesfer, Fatima Al-Banawi, Jawaher Alamri, Hind Al-Fahhad and Noor Alameer worked together to direct a 70-minute fiction film

The organisers of the Red Sea International Film Festival, the first ever in Saudi Arabia, on the programming principles, aims and ambitions as well as the misgivings surrounding the upcoming event