EXCLUSIVE: Few recent festival launches have garnered as much chatter as the Red Sea International Film Festival, Saudi Arabia’s first ever film festival. Film festivals are largely seen as l…
, Saudi Arabia’s first ever film festival.
The former Dubai Film Festival MD had been set to oversee the festival’s inaugural edition last March but, like so many events, it was cancelled due to the pandemic. The festival, hosted in the port city of Jeddah, instead will run next month between December 6 – 15.
So far the festival has announced its Saudi, Arab Spectacular and classics lineups. The competition and international strands will be revealed tomorrow. There have been political and societal gains in Saudi Arabia over the last three years, notably in terms of women’s rights, but the country is still deeply patriarchal. Sexual, religious and political plurality is virtually non-existent.
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