Red Sea Film Festival

Red Sea Film Festival: an international film event with a Saudi accent

The Red Sea Film Festival is a film festival that presents a program of screenings and professional gatherings. Its website shows a schedule of sessions spread over several days, with screenings of feature films and documentaries, as well as public conversations with actors and filmmakers.

Screening program

The program includes fiction, documentary, animation, and historical cinema titles, with screenings distributed throughout the day. Among the announced films are Giant, The Secret Agent, Girl, All That's Left of You, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Erupcja, El'Sardines, Palestine 36, A Sad and Beautiful World, Kokuho, The Big Blue, Aida, Seven Summits, Sirât, Nighttime Sounds, Doraemon: Nobita's Art World Tales, The Finale, Desert Warrior, Hijra, Late Shift, Human Tide, My Father's Scent, The Wizard of the Kremlin, In-I: In Motion, The World of Love, Spellbound, The Fakenapping, The Furious, Truck Mama, Noor, Unidentified, Rose of Nevada, Barni, Primavera, and Umrao Jaan, among others.

Conversations with professionals

The festival organizes conversation sessions with figures from cinema and acting. The announced program includes talks with Queen Latifah, Kirsten Dunst, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Nina Dobrev, Kriti Sanon, Jessica Alba, Dakota Johnson, Ali Kalthami, Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Stanley Tong, Mai Omar, Nadine Labaki, and Sean Baker, with durations ranging from 45 to 60 minutes. There is also a session titled Women In Motion with Juliette Binoche, Cherien Dabis, and Shahad Ameen, focused on how stories are told and why.

Sections dedicated to Saudi and Arab cinema

The program reserves specific spaces for local and regional production. The New Saudi / New Cinema section brings together Saudi short films such as The Cradle, The Scene, Market Dynamo, Unknown, Guardian of History, The Golden Fish, Ashura's Voice, Sarih, and Wajoom. Another section, Art & Museum Journeys, includes documentaries such as Circles of Life and Beyond the Shifting Sands.

International origin of the films

The selection brings together productions from a wide range of countries. Titles with origin or co-production from Saudi Arabia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea, India, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Qatar, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Switzerland, Latvia, Brazil, the Netherlands, Kenya, South Africa, Somalia, Djibouti, Algeria, Cyprus, Greece, Hong Kong, and Italy, among others, appear. The languages of the films include Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, German, Polish, Spanish, Hindi, Urdu, Swahili, Somali, and Kikamba.

Tickets and accreditation

The site offers ticket purchases for the different sessions and a form to apply for professional accreditation. It also has a downloadable mobile app and a version of the content in Arabic and English.