The inaugural Red Sea Film Festival kicks off in the coastal city of Jeddah on March 12, marking the first film event to come under the auspices of the newly launched Ministry of Culture
Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival in the coastal city of Jeddah is the latest effort by local filmmakers to break free from the country’s restrictive past and expand its burgeoning film sector., the debut feature from Saudi director Mahmoud Sabbagh.
The inaugural Red Sea Film Festival — Sabbagh’s brainchild — kicks off in the coastal city of Jeddah on March 12. While it’s not the kingdom’s first film event — that honor goes to the Saudi Film Festival, which had to operate mostly in the shadows until recent developments — it’s certainly the first with a significant international outreach, and the first to come under the auspices of the newly launched Ministry of Culture.
The Gulf has had a mixed record when it comes to film festivals. The Abu Dhabi Film Festival and Doha Tribeca Film Festival both launched with great gusto and then fizzled, as did the Dubai International Film Festival, which shuttered in 2018 after 14 editions. But while those events strove to attract A-list talent and star-studded Hollywood titles alongside their more local fare, the Red Sea Film Festival is less focused on its global red carpet appeal.
While the past two years may have seen some seismic changes in Saudi’s cinema industry and in wider society, the country’s efforts to reform under Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman have largely been overshadowed on the world stage by scandals such as the 2018 murder ofcolumnist Jamal Khashoggi and the continued suppression of dissidents. Whether this impacts the Red Sea Fest’s efforts to attract international visitors remains to be seen .
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