The Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea Iff) has confirmed the third edition will take place from 30 November – 9 December 2023 in Jeddah, nestled on the eastern shore of the Red Sea. The second edition, was widely applauded for significantly expanding the industry and events program alongside presenting 143 films from 66 countries to 39,410 filmgoers and 4,345 film professionals, media and students, with an overall percentage capacity increase of 12.
The 2022 Festival showcased seven new Saudi feature films and 16 short films from an exciting wave of filmmakers, demonstrating the flourishing local industry and innovative filmmakers responsible for driving and bringing an exciting new vibrancy to Saudi cinema.
Shining a light on films from Saudi Arabia, the Arab world, Asia, and Africa, the Festival’s film competition saw Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone at the helm and along with his fellow jurors, present 13 Yusr Awards to recognise the highest achievements in storytelling. The Golden Yusr for...
The 2022 Festival showcased seven new Saudi feature films and 16 short films from an exciting wave of filmmakers, demonstrating the flourishing local industry and innovative filmmakers responsible for driving and bringing an exciting new vibrancy to Saudi cinema.
Shining a light on films from Saudi Arabia, the Arab world, Asia, and Africa, the Festival’s film competition saw Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone at the helm and along with his fellow jurors, present 13 Yusr Awards to recognise the highest achievements in storytelling. The Golden Yusr for...
- 2/8/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Zeyad Alhusaini is an award-winning director, both in the U.S. and internationally, with such acclaimed laurels as the 2004 New York Independent Film Festival New York Award, the 2000 New York International Independent Film Festival Audience Award, the 2004 Chicago International Short Film Festival Best Cinematography Award, 1998 Seguaro Film Festival Audience Award, the 2006 Arab Ad Award of the year etc. In 2013 Z’s commercials/campaigns won the Golden Award in three different categories at the Amf Advertising Creativity Awards. In 2005, Z was selected to be part of the New Filmmakers Series at Anthology Film Archives in New York and in 2006, was named one of the “Arab Filmmakers of the Year” by the French Arab Art Institute in Paris. He is also a recipient of Kuwait’s national award for creativity, the highest honor bestowed on artists and filmmakers. In 2013, his feature screenplay of How I Got There was nominated for the prestigious Iwc Award,...
- 12/20/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Lotfy Nathan receives best director award for ‘Harka’.
Iraqi director Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji’s Baghdad-set feature Hanging Gardens took home the best film award at the 2022 Red Sea International Film Festival, which announced its Yusr award winners on Thursday, December 8.
Hanging Gardens follows a young boy living as a rubbish picker in the dumps of Baghdad, nicknamed the ‘hanging gardens’, who hits the jackpot when he finds discarded US sex doll.
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The Arabic-language film is a Iraq-Palestine-Egypt-uk-Saudi Arabia co-production. The UK producer is Margaret Glover, who also wrote the script with...
Iraqi director Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji’s Baghdad-set feature Hanging Gardens took home the best film award at the 2022 Red Sea International Film Festival, which announced its Yusr award winners on Thursday, December 8.
Hanging Gardens follows a young boy living as a rubbish picker in the dumps of Baghdad, nicknamed the ‘hanging gardens’, who hits the jackpot when he finds discarded US sex doll.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The Arabic-language film is a Iraq-Palestine-Egypt-uk-Saudi Arabia co-production. The UK producer is Margaret Glover, who also wrote the script with...
- 12/9/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Red Sea Film Festival awarded Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji’s “Hanging Gardens” the Golden Yusr for Best Feature Film, the top prize of the festival’s main competition. The film, which was also awarded the Silver Yusr for Best Cinematic Achievement for Duraid Munajim, was selected by a jury led by director Oliver Stone, who was not present at the ceremony but recorded a video introduction where he thanked the festival for the opportunity, calling the movies in competition “eye-opening.”
Other winners include Silver Yusr for Best Actor for Adam Bessa in “Harka,” Silver Yusr for Best Actress for Adila Bendimerad in “The Last Queen,” and Silver Yusr for Best Screenplay to Reza Jamali for “The Childless Village.”
“So many new and good friends! This year it’s my 60th in the film business and I want to share this award with all my fans,” said Academy Award-winning actor Jackie Chan,...
Other winners include Silver Yusr for Best Actor for Adam Bessa in “Harka,” Silver Yusr for Best Actress for Adila Bendimerad in “The Last Queen,” and Silver Yusr for Best Screenplay to Reza Jamali for “The Childless Village.”
“So many new and good friends! This year it’s my 60th in the film business and I want to share this award with all my fans,” said Academy Award-winning actor Jackie Chan,...
- 12/8/2022
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
Ron Perlman is visiting Saudi Arabia for the first time, but it’s too soon for him to have formed an opinion. “For a guy like me, last night I just finished watching the grand debut of Z’s movie and all I want to do is go and have a drink and I realized that I’m not in Kansas anymore,” he tells Variety at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah.
“Z’s new movie” is the debut feature from Kuwaiti filmmaker Zeyad Alhusaini, “How I Got There,” an entertaining crime caper in which two friends accidentally come in possession of a truckload of weapons. Perlman plays a shadowy American mercenary. “Z sends me the script. And it answers all of my criteria. Very original, very exotic. Then I met him and he’s a formidable man.”
Also showing in Jeddah is Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio,” for...
“Z’s new movie” is the debut feature from Kuwaiti filmmaker Zeyad Alhusaini, “How I Got There,” an entertaining crime caper in which two friends accidentally come in possession of a truckload of weapons. Perlman plays a shadowy American mercenary. “Z sends me the script. And it answers all of my criteria. Very original, very exotic. Then I met him and he’s a formidable man.”
Also showing in Jeddah is Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio,” for...
- 12/8/2022
- by John Bleasdale
- Variety Film + TV
Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival kicks off its second edition in the port city of Jeddah this week.
The event, which runs December 1-10, unfolds five years to the week that news first broke that the country was lifting its 35-year cinema ban as part of a wider strategy to open up its society and the economy.
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The 2021 inaugural edition unfolded amid uncertainty for both organizers and attendees. There were also a handful of last-minute glitches including the emergence of the more virulent Covid-19 Omicron strain and the no-show of figurehead artistic director Edouard Waintrop.
The event, which runs December 1-10, unfolds five years to the week that news first broke that the country was lifting its 35-year cinema ban as part of a wider strategy to open up its society and the economy.
Related Story Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival To Honor Indian Star Shah Rukh Khan Related Story U.S. Beats Iran, Advances To Second Round Of World Cup; Will Face Netherlands Next Related Story Fox Sports Replay Cuts Protester Entirely Out Of Portugal-Uruguay World Cup Match; FIFA Says Pitch Invader Was Released – Updated
The 2021 inaugural edition unfolded amid uncertainty for both organizers and attendees. There were also a handful of last-minute glitches including the emergence of the more virulent Covid-19 Omicron strain and the no-show of figurehead artistic director Edouard Waintrop.
- 11/30/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The festival runs December 1-10
Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival has unveiled its International and Arab Spectacular programmes.
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Among the nine-strong international selection is Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
Guadagnino’s cannibal romance starring Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell had its world premiere at Venice where it won best director and best young actor for Russell.
Pinocchio, co-directed by Mark Gustafson, world premiered at BFI London Film Festival last month and will be released globally by Netflix in December.
Other International Spectacular titles include Martin McDonagh...
Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival has unveiled its International and Arab Spectacular programmes.
Scroll down for full line-ups
Among the nine-strong international selection is Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
Guadagnino’s cannibal romance starring Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell had its world premiere at Venice where it won best director and best young actor for Russell.
Pinocchio, co-directed by Mark Gustafson, world premiered at BFI London Film Festival last month and will be released globally by Netflix in December.
Other International Spectacular titles include Martin McDonagh...
- 11/9/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Four project by Gulf directors nominated for $100,000 prize.
The Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) has announced that actress Cate Blanchett will head the Iwc Filmmakers Award jury for the second year.
Diff also revealed the shortlisted projects in the line-up for the $100,000 prize, which will be announced on Dec 7 during the 10th edition of Diff (Dec 6-14).
The shortlisted projects are:
A Reverence for Spiders, Faiza AmbahSeige, Hussain Alriffaei, written by Bahraini author Ameen SalehDolphins, Waleed Al Shehhi, written by UAE author Ahmed SalmeenHow I Got There, Zeyad Alhusaini.
The four projects in development will be assessed by a jury of international film industry experts, headed by Blanchett, who will consider the scripts and the overall potential of the projects.
Diff chairman, Abdulhamid Juma, said: “This year we received three times as many entries for the award as in 2012, which speaks for the numerous filmmakers in the region who are ready to take on a feature project...
The Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) has announced that actress Cate Blanchett will head the Iwc Filmmakers Award jury for the second year.
Diff also revealed the shortlisted projects in the line-up for the $100,000 prize, which will be announced on Dec 7 during the 10th edition of Diff (Dec 6-14).
The shortlisted projects are:
A Reverence for Spiders, Faiza AmbahSeige, Hussain Alriffaei, written by Bahraini author Ameen SalehDolphins, Waleed Al Shehhi, written by UAE author Ahmed SalmeenHow I Got There, Zeyad Alhusaini.
The four projects in development will be assessed by a jury of international film industry experts, headed by Blanchett, who will consider the scripts and the overall potential of the projects.
Diff chairman, Abdulhamid Juma, said: “This year we received three times as many entries for the award as in 2012, which speaks for the numerous filmmakers in the region who are ready to take on a feature project...
- 11/8/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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