The “Red Sea” and “Marrakesh” festivals shine and compete with international festivals

After the “Cairo” and “El Gouna” festivals announced that they would halt preparing and holding a caller league for each of them for the existent year, and aft the “Days of the Carthage Film Festival” receded into a section objection (according to what was reported), each that remained successful the Arab tract of large festivals was the festival. “The Red Sea”, which takes spot betwixt the 30th of November and the 9th of December, and the “Marrakesh” Festival, which begins a fewer days earlier the commencement of the Saudi Festival, arsenic it begins its activities connected the 24th of this period and ends connected the 2nd. From the pursuing month.

The Saudi festival is the largest successful the Arab satellite and among the largest internationally arsenic well. It announced the contention films and parallel programs 2 days ago, and these see an awesome fig for cinema successful Saudi Arabia: the full fig of Saudi films that volition beryllium shown connected the festival screens this twelvemonth is 36 films, some agelong and short. This is simply a ample fig for a cinema that has been emerging for a fewer years.
In the contention are 2 wholly local-produced Saudi films: “Noura” by Tawfiq Al-Zaidi, who antecedently presented a singular fig of bully abbreviated films that were screened during the Gulf Film Festival successful Dubai. And “Mandoub” by Ali Al-Kalthami, a assemblage play astir a young man’s effort to prevention his father’s faltering situation.
There are besides films that Saudi Arabia participated successful producing, specified arsenic “Hajan” by the Egyptian Abu Bakr Shawqi, which was shown astatine the past Cannes Festival, and “God willing, a boy” by Amjad Al-Rashed (a associated accumulation betwixt Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Qatar), and “Beyond the Mountains.” » By Tunisian Mohamed Attia (Tunisian-Saudi accumulation with Belgium, Qatar and Italy).
But the top momentum from Saudi productions lies successful the “New Saudi Films” demonstration, including “Night Representative” by Ali Al-Kalthami, which witnessed its satellite premiere astatine the Toronto International Festival, “To My Son” by Dhafer Al-Abidin, “Yalla, Yalla” by Muhammad Hammad, and “ Four Daughters by Kawthar Ben Haniyeh, and A Fever Dream by Fares Godos.
As is evident from immoderate of these names, Saudi productions see financing Arab films directed by non-Saudi Arabs, specified arsenic Amjad Al-Rashed, Kawthar Bin Haniyeh, and Abu Bakr Shawqi, and overseas films, the astir salient of which this twelvemonth was the movie that opened the Cannes Film Festival, “Jane Doe.” “Bari,” which was made by and stars Mayon, volition beryllium shown successful the peculiar screenings conception this year, similar 14 different films successful this event. The fig of competing films is 17, and these include, successful summation to “God willing, a boy” by Amjad Al-Rashed, “Beyond the Mountains” by Mohammed bin Attia, and “Noura” by Tawfiq Zayed, films from Iraq, Morocco, and Britain (a British-Palestinian movie titled “The Professor” by Farah Nabulsi), the United Arab Emirates, Algeria and India.