A CHILDLESS VILLAGE
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Kazem, an elderly film-maker, (Behrouz Allahverdizadeh) tried to shoot a documentary 20 years...
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A SUMMER IN BOUJAD
By: Omar Mouldouira
Seven years after the death of his mother, 13-year-old Karim has left Paris for Morocco with his...
BEFORE NOW AND THEN
By: Kamila Andini
Nana (Happy Salma) is the much younger wife of the bullying Mr Darga (Arswendy Bening Swara), a...
DIRTY DIFFICULT DANGEROUS
By: Wissam Charaf
Deadpan humour may not be the first thing we associate with stories about doomed love or struggling...
HANGING GARDENS
By: Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji
Taha and his younger brother As'ad (Wissam Diyaa) scrape a living searching for discarded metals...
HARKA
By: Lotfy Nathan
Harka is an impassioned plea for social justice set in Sidi Bouzid, the Tunisian city where the...
LAST FILM SHOW
By: Pan Nalin
India’s official Oscar entry is both a fictional retelling of the director Pan Nalin’s boyhood...
MOUNTAIN ONION
By: Eldar Shibanov
Jabai, aged 11, lives with his family in a small village in Kazakhstan. His father is possibly the...
NEXT SOHEE
By: July Jung
Sohee (Kim Si-eun) is studying pet care and is a talented dancer, full of life and determination,...
NEZOUH
By: Soudade Kaadan
Winner of the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival, Nezouh – which means “displacement”...
OUR LADY OF THE CHINESE SHOP
By: Ery Claver
Angolan director Ery Claver spins an allegory of modern Africa from this fable about a Chinese...
RAVEN SONG
By: Mohamed Al-Salman
Saudi director Mohamed Al Salman's feature film debut expands on the themes of his previous short...
SHIMONI
By: Angela Wanjiku Wamai
After seven years in prison, 35-year-old Geoffrey (Justin Mirichii) is released into the care of a...
THE LAST QUEEN
By: Damien Ounouri, Adila Bendimerad
In 1516, Algerian king Salim Toumi accepted the help of feared pirate Aroudj Barbarossa to liberate...
WITHIN SAND
By: Mohammed Alatawi
This spectacular account of a young man making his way through the desert is one of the first Saudi...
Red Sea: Shorts Competition 1 PG15
A QUIET SUMMER
By: Sis Gürdal
Ada, a 17-year-old Turkish teenager, faces social pressures from her multi-generational family...
ON MY FATHER'S GRAVE
By: Jawahine Zentar
Maine and her family are accompanying her father’s coffin to the small Moroccan village where he...
SNOW IN SEPTEMBER
By: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
Winner of both the best short film in the Orizzonti section in Venice and best international short...
THE STORM
By: Wendi Tang
In late September 2008, Xiaomin, class president in her elementary school graduating class, is...
VHS TAPE REPLACED
By: Maha Al-Saati
Set in 1987, a young black Saudi man attempts to impress a girl by mimicking the music video of...
WARSHA
By: Dania Bdeir
A Syrian builder in Beirut decides to replace a colleague who died in an accident in a towering,...
Red Sea: Shorts Competition 2 PG15
A BOY WHO CANNOT SEE THE BEAUTY
By: Saurav Yadav
This vivid experimental film, brimming with influences from filmmakers ranging from Terrence Malick...
KOORA
By: Ziyad Alzahrani
Two children living in a rural neighbourhood in Riyadh sneak into their neighbour’s house while...
NIGHT SHIFT
By: Ali Mostafa
An ambulance worker on his night shift encounters a vampire, and must do everything he can to save...
THE LAST DISPLACED
By: Mohanad Al-Sudani
Wisam, a soldier in the Iraqi counter-terrorism service, had left his child during the war, and as...
THE WATER MURMURS
By: Diam Chen
Chinese filmmaker Jianying Chen won the Palme D’Or at Cannes for the best short film with this...
WILL MY PARENTS COME TO SEE ME
By: Muhamed Bashiir Harawe
The central figure in Harawe's haunting short film is just a boy, but he is one of many boys in the...
ZOO
By: Tariq Rimawi
Wandering through the worst zoo in the World, a young boy Sami is looking for his football. The...
Red Sea: Shorts Competition 3 PG15
DALA BOATBREAKERS
By: Kaung Swan Thar
A first film from an emerging Myanmar filmmaker, this short documentary unobtrusively observes a...
EARTH IS WEEPING, ITS WATER ARE TEARS
By: Mohammed Alghadhban
While Majed (30 years) is trying to find a way to express his concerns and feelings, many obstacles...
IN THE LONG RUN
By: Yousef Assabahi
Sent by his mother to buy bread for lunch, seven-year-old Ahmed runs through the historic alleyways...
KERATIN DAY
By: Sami Tlili
In a barbershop for men, it is keratin day. This means there is no shaving of beards or "ordinary...
THE INTRUSION
By: Eden Junjung
A couple tries to dig up a freshly buried corpse in order to cut an ear from the body, believing it...
TSUTSUÉ
By: Amartei Armar
Set in a small Ghanaian town surrounded by a looming landfill site that is tipping garbage into the...
Red Sea: Shorts Competition 4 PG15
HOW I GREW UP
By: Yufei Liu
Chinese animator Yufei Liu looked within himself for this story of an emotion that is powerful but...
KROKA
By: Samer Battikhi
All the theaters in town are controlled by the Brown Suits Committee, an old-fashioned greedy...
NAIMA’S MOVIE
By: Sami Saif Sirelkhatim
Amir, a filmmaker makes a film to honor Naima, his childhood nanny’s life and their close bond.
NIGHT STOP
By: Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
From the acclaimed Somali-born director of The Gravediggers’ Wife, which had its premiere last...
SISTERS OF THE ROTATION
By: Gaby Zarazir, Michel Zarazir
At Sisters of the Rotation’s convent, the Earth doesn’t spin by itself.
SPLIT ENDS
By: Alireza Kazemipour
A young woman with a shaven head and her friend, a man with hair down to his shoulders, have their...
TURTLE SOUP
By: Choānn
Aileen’s ex-husband refuses to elaborate on their eight-year-old son’s fight in school, so she...
A GAZA WEEKEND
By: Basil Khalil
Mild-mannered English journalist Michael (Stephen Mangan) is trapped in occupied Palestinian...
A.K.A.
By: Geetika Narang Abbasi
Film star lookalikes are as much part of Indian popular culture as the revered actors who front the...
AJOOMMA
By: He Shuming
Widowed Mrs Lim (played by veteran Singaporean actress Hong Huifang) divides her time between...
ALAM
By: Firas Khoury
High-school rebel Tamer and his gang are mostly committed to smoking weed, messing around in class...
ASHKAL
By: Youssef Chebi
Elements of film noir, the traditional police procedural and political allegory come together in...
DOUNIA AND THE PRINCESS OF ALEPPO
By: Marya Zarif, André Kadi
Six-year-old Dounia (brightly voiced by Rachaf Ataya) is forced to leave her home in Aleppo after...
FALCON LAKE
By: Charlotte Le Bon
Two teenagers develop a close bond when thrown together on a family holiday in Quebec, where they...
GODARD SEUL LE CINÉMA
By: Cyril Leuthy
When he died in September, aged 91, French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard left behind around 140...
LIVING
By: Oliver Hermanus
Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro relocates Akira Kurosawa's 1952 masterpiece Ikiru to London, where Mr...
METRONOM
By: Alexandru Belc
The year is 1972; Nikolai Ceausescu has ruled Romania with an iron fist for seven years. Politics...
NUCLEAR
By: Oliver Stone
Director and Red Sea IFF Jury President Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global...
RHINEGOLD
By: Fatih Akin
Born during a bombing raid in a cave swarming with bats, Giwar Jajabi, aka Xatar, was never going...
RICEBOY SLEEPS
By: Anthony Shim
So-young (Choi Syung-yoon) was an abandoned baby raised in a Korean orphanage; when she comes as a...
SAINT OMER
By: Alice Diop
In 2013, all of France was captivated by the trial of a brilliant Senegalese student who had...
SALAM
By: Houda Benyamina, Anne Cissé, Mélanie Diam's
Back in 2011, Melanie Georgiades – aka Diam’s - was a huge rap star in France, having clocked...
SONNE
By: Kurdwin Ayub
Kurdish Austrian Yesmin (Melina Benli) isn’t especially religious, but she wears a hijab in...
THE BLUE CAFTAN
By: Maryam Touzani
The traditional Moroccan caftan is handmade from precious fabric, every braided detail individually...
THE DAMNED DON’T CRY
By: Fyzal Boulifa
After two award-winning short films at the Directors' Fortnight under his belt, Fyzal Boulifa...
THE GRAVITY
By: Cédric Ido
The crime-ridden Parisian banlieues are familiar from films such as La Haine and Les Miserables,...
UNDER THE FIG TREES
By: Erige Sehiri
Inspired by a day spent at work with Fide Fdhili, the woman who would become the star of her film,...
WALK UP
By: Hong Sangsoo
Korean miniaturist Hong Sang-soo serves up his signature blend of awkward meetings, table talk and...
AL KHALLAT +
By: Fahad Alammari
From the creators of the digital series Al Khallat, which amassed over 1.5 billion views and...
ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME
By: Lara Saba
Award-winning Lebanese director Lara Saba turns her attention from frantic daily life in Beirut –...
HOW I GOT THERE
By: Zeyad ( Z ) Alhusaini
When two childhood friends – now grown up and dabbling in the illegal alcohol trade – find a...
KAMLA
By: John Ikram Sawers
Kamla is deeply committed to her work as a psychiatrist; her patients find her both supportive and...
QUEENS
By: Yasmine Benkiran
With a nod to Thelma and Louise, Moroccan director Yasmine Benkiran follows two women and a young...
VALLEY ROAD
By: Khaled Fahd
Ali is perceived by his family and the people of the beautiful Saudi Arabian mountain village where...
BONES AND ALL
By: Luca Guadagnino
“Bones and All” is a story of first love between Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman learning...
BROKER
By: Hirokazu Koreeda
Makeshift families have been an enduring theme in the work of Hirokazu Koreeda, arguably the...
DECISION TO LEAVE
By: Park Chan-Wook
Korean master Park Chan-wook, notorious for the extremes of violence and sex in films such as Old...
EMPIRE OF LIGHT
By: Sam Mendes
Olivia Colman is extraordinary as Hilary, the smiling, efficient, middle-aged manager of a...
HUNT
By: Lee Jung-jae
The real-life political scheming and scattergun extra-judicial executions that followed the 1979...
REBEL
By: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Belgian-Moroccan directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah bring the action movie techniques and...
STEWART
By: Patrick Mark
Legendary racing-car driver Jackie Stewart, who was known as “the Flying Scot” during his...
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
By: Martin Mcdonagh
Every day for as long as anyone remembers, dairy farmer Padraic (Colin Farrell) has stopped by the...
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
By: Ruben Östlund
Swedish satirist Ruben Ostlund joined a very exclusive club of two-time Cannes Palme d'Or winners...
WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
By: Shekhar Kapur
How do you find lasting love in today’s world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe...
KING OF THE RING
By: Mohammed Saeed Harib
Musaab is a loveable loser, with big hopes, big heart and an even bigger belly. But he also has big...
SATTAR
By: Abdullah Al-Arak
Saad, a young man who loves professional wrestling, gets excited when EEW, a professional wrestling...
SLAVE
By: Mansour Assad
Sakkir and his wife Latifa made a movie, but it enraged society. As a result, Sakkir struggled with...
New Saudi/ New Cinema Shorts 1 PG15
FORGIVE ME
By: Jabriel Mohammad
On the day she imagined would be the most special of her life, a new bride is abandoned by her...
LUCKY YOU'RE MINE
By: Nora Abu Shusha
A modern Saudi marriage story. Ahmad and Salma are newlywed, and days after the wedding, Salma...
OLD PHONE NUMBER
By: Ali Saeed
Hamed's mid-life crisis prompts him to repent and change the course of his life, (deciding to go to...
REQUIEM FOR SILENCE
By: Majed Z. Samman
Majed explores his struggle with an unwanted malicious entity that unexpectedly comes into his life...
ZABARJAD
By: Hussain Almutliq
Yehya has dropped out of college and returns to his home village in Saudi Arabia, determined to...
New Saudi/ New Cinema Shorts 2 PG15
CASTING
By: Ali Baseed
Frustrated by inquisitive people’s interference in his personal life, the character at the centre...
FORWARD
By: Fahad Alotaibi
An underground hacker gets a phone call from the future that warns him that something serious is...
LAST CHANCE TO FALL IN LOVE
By: Faisal Buhaishi
In this touching, poignant story, an old man finally gets the chance to reunite with his first love...
MATCHSTICK
By: Salma Murad
Told in a style that recalls German Expressionism, Kabreet is the story of a young man pulled...
THE CHILD IN HIS OWN CLOSET
By: Khaled Zidan
Khaled Zidan’s film was one of the winning films in the Red Sea’s 48-hour Filmmaking Challenge,...
THE KING'S POEM
By: Abdulwahab Bin Shaddad
The King’s Poem, is a documentary produced by Thmanyah Company for Publishing and Distribution....
WHEN RED BLOOMS
By: Tala Alharbi
Winner of the Red Sea's 48-hour Filmmaking Challenge, Tala Alharbi’s film ventures into the mind...
YALLAH, YALLAH, BEENAH!
By: Mohammed Hammad
Away we go down the rabbit hole into a fun fantasy. A film junkie, whose house is a shrine to...
New Saudi/ New Cinema Shorts 3 PG15
A SWING
By: Raneem Almohandes, Dana Almohandes
Leen’s military father used to tell her stories of a magical swing that exists out there in the...
MEMORIES FROM THE NORTH
By: Abdulmohsen Almutairi
Thirty years after the 1991 Gulf War, a group of filmmakers who were children during the...
OTHMAN
By: Khaled Zidan
Othman works as a security guard at a government hospital's parking lot and lives harmoniously with...
TEA LEAF
By: Mohammed Baqer
As he enjoys his customary tea, a former husband recalls scenes from his marriage to his ex-wife....
A HUMAN POSITION
By: Anders Emblem
Set in the picturesque Norwegian town of Alesund, on a fjord surrounded by mountains, Anders...
AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD
By: Nadim Mishlawi
Suspended between a brutal past and an uncertain future, the battered city of Beirut exists in a...
ENYS MEN
By: Mark Jenkin
A lone wildlife volunteer is stationed in the only house on Enys Men (which means Stone Island in...
FRAGMENTS FROM HEAVEN
By: Adnane Baraka
Two men comb the Moroccan desert, famous for its recurring meteorite falls, for these stones that...
GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE
By: Jacquelyn Mills
Zoe Lucas was an art student when she first hitched a ride with a journalist to isolated Sable...
KHAMSA - THE WELL OF OBLIVION
By: Vynom
A little boy wakes up, finds himself at the bottom of a dark well and realises he can’t remember...
LOST TREASURES OF ARABIA: THE ANCIENT CITY OF DADAN
By: Dirk Verheye, Inti Calfat
The ancient city of Dadan, home to the Dadanite and Lihyanite kingdoms in North West Arabia is...
OCTOPUS
By: Karim Kassem
Lebanese filmmaker Karim Kassem returned to Beirut in 2020, intending to make another film...
BIGMAN
By: Camiel Schouwenaar
Twelve-year-old Dylan (Maike Cillekens) and his best friend Youssef (Anouar Kasmi) live, eat and...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO
By: Guillermo Del Toro, Mark Gustafson
Academy Award®-winning director Guillermo del Toro and award winning, stop-motion legend Mark...
MAIKA
By: Ham Tran
When eight-year-old science enthusiast Hung (Phu Truong Lai) sees a star fall to Earth not far from...
PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH
By: Joel Crawford
The world’s smallest swashbuckler faces the horrible realisation that although cats have nine...
THE BLACK PHARAOH, THE SAVAGE AND THE PRINCESS
By: Michel Ocelot
Three tales, three places and three very different worlds, all made visually exquisite by the...
ABOUT SASHA
By: Yaël Langmann, Jérémy Mainguy
Sasha (Angele Metzger) is 17 and has recently moved cities with her family starting at a new high...
ROGUE HEROES
By: Tom Shankland
How the SAS was formed becomes a ripping yarn, peppered with extra swearing, violence and pranks,...
THE HEYSEL TRAGEDY
By: Jan Verheyen, Jean-Philippe Leclaire
It was the tragedy that would change football forever and shake sports fans everywhere. The Heysel...
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
By: Gurinder Chadha
BILB is the story of Jess Bhambra who dreams for playing football liek her hero David Beckham while...
DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE
By: Aditya Chopra
The love story of Raj and Simran is virtually synonymous with romance in Bollywood; Aditya...
ICE CREAM IN GLYM
By: Khairy Beshara
After more than 25 years, this film still comes to mind when mentioning the Egyptian superstar Amr...
LOVE IN KARNAK
By: Ali Reda
A sparkling showcase for the trailblazing Reda Troupe of folkloric dancers, this classic film –...
MALCOLM X
By: Spike Lee
Often misunderstood, Malcolm X was one of the leading forces of the United States' Civil Rights...
PONYO
By: Hayao Miyazaki
A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to...
SAMBIZANGA
By: Sarah Maldoror
Sarah Maldoror, a pioneer of African film-making, brings a woman’s perspective to the explosive...
THE GRAND ILLUSION
By: Jean Renoir
Orson Welles described Jean Renoir's 1937 humanist masterpiece as one of two films he would have...
WATCH OUT FOR ZOUZOU
By: Hassan Al-Imam
By day, Zouzou is a serious theatre student at a prestigious Egyptian university, popular with her...
Stranger Than Paradise + Short R18
STRANGER THAN PARADISE
By: Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch’s landmark indie road movie, made on a minuscule budget, won the Cannes Camera...
STRANGER THAN ROTTERDAM
By: Lewie Kloster, Noah Kloster
Jim Jarmusch’s producer and partner Sara Driver turns out to be an engaging storyteller in her...
(HI)STORY OF A PAINTING
By: Gaëlle Mourre, Quentin Darras
An animated 6DoF VR series aimed at engaging young audiences with art by creating intimate,...
EGGSCAPE
By: German Heller
A Mixed Reality experience about a terrified little egg struggling to stay alive in a world full of...
ELELE
By: Sjoerd Van Acker
At times psychedelic at times meditative, Elele is a sensory and intuitive VR experience featuring...
EURYDICE
By: Celine Daemen
"Eurydice, een afdaling in oneindigheid is a Virtual Reality opera inspired by the ancient myth of...
FROM THE MAIN SQUARE
By: Pedro Harres
Encircling its central square, a new town emerges in all its diversity. A crossroad of stories,...
ITHRA CREATIVE SOLUTIONS SHOWCASE
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The Creative Solutions programme set up by Ithra (part of Saudi Aramco) is the first development...
KINGDOM OF PLANTS WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
By: Iona Mcewan
Welcome to a strange and dangerous world: the Kingdom of Plants. Immerse yourself in the otherwise...
ON THE MORNING YOU WAKE TO THE END OF THE WORLD
By: Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Pierre Zandrowicz, Arnaud Colinart
On a regular Saturday morning in January 2018, as Hawaiian citizens went about their daily...
REIMAGINED VOLUME 1: NYSSA
By: Julie Cavaliere
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm folktale, A Tale of the Boy Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was,...
SHORES OF LOCI
By: Ellen Utrecht
Shores of Loci maximises the full potential of VR to immerse yourself into epic environments of...
THE MAN WHO COULDN'T LEAVE
By: Singing Chen
Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories of...
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