Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival has unveiled a first batch of titles that will screen as part of its "Festival Favorites" lineup, showcasing the cream of the international fest crop for Arab ...

“My Driver and I” was supposed to be made in 2016, but was scuttled amid Saudi Arabia's decades-long cinema ban. Eight years later, the landscape for film in the kingdom looks much different ...

Whitby/Getty; Daniele Venturelli/Getty The opening night of the third edition of the Red Sea ... Saudi fantasy novel by Ibraheem Abbas. A synopsis on the festival's website explains that the film ...

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Saudi director and producer Osama Al Khurayji’s debut feature “Siwar” has been selected as the opening film of the upcoming ...

Doha Film Institute CEO Fatma Al Remaihi has confirmed plans to launch a new film festival in Qatar that will be unveiled in ...

Now in its second cycle, the Red Sea Fund offers financial support for film and TV projects across Africa and Asia.

November is a busy time on the Arab film festival circuit between Egypt’s El Gouna in October, Marrakech in late November and Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival in December. “We are very ...