The Middle East premiere of British director Joe Wright’s dazzling romantic drama “Cyrano” will open the Red Sea Film Festival, which is Saudi Arabia’s first full-fledged film festival and market w…
The ambitious event, which is a key plank of the kingdom’s plans to diversify its oil-based economyfollowing the 2017 removal of its religion-related ban on cinema –historic district of the city of Jeddah, a Unesco World Heritage site.
The festival’s closer is the world premiere of Egyptian director Amr Salama’s supernatural dramedy “Bara El Manhag,” about an orphaned boy who breaks into a haunted house and finds a ghost who becomes a friend and mentor. Salama is known internationally for his drama “Sheikh Jackson” about an Islamic cleric who is obsessed with Michael Jackson.
What remains unclear, however, is how strong the international presence at the Red Sea fest will be, especially in terms of talent. Cameras are expected to start rolling in mid-November in Saudi’a AlUla region on Gerard Butler action thriller “Kandahar,” directed by Ric Roman Waugh, which Saudi-owned Middle East TV giant MBC is co-producing and co-financing along with The Capstone Group and CAA Media Finance.
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