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THE KING'S POEM
Documentary | Running Time: 25 minutes
2022 / Arabic dialogue
Country: Saudi Arabia
Directed by: Abdulwahab Bin ShaddadDirected by: Abdulwahab Bin Shaddad
MENA Premiere
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Abdulwahab Bin Shaddad
Screenwriter and film director at Thmanyah Company for Publishing and Distribution. He graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in Film Studies and Production. His screenplay, The Surveilled Door (Al-Bab Al-Marsood), won the Best Short Film Scenario award at the 8th edition of the Saudi Film Festival in 2022.
Screenwriter and film director at Thmanyah Company for Publishing and Distribution. He graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in Film Studies and Production. His screenplay, The Surveilled Door (Al-Bab Al-Marsood), won the Best Short Film Scenario award at the 8th edition of the Saudi Film Festival in 2022.
SHOWTIME
Mon 05 Dec | 9:30 PM - 11:19 PM
VOX Cinema 1 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
VOX Cinema 1 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
Tue 06 Dec | 3:15 PM - 5:04 PM
VOX Cinema 5 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
VOX Cinema 5 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
Fri 09 Dec | 8:15 PM - 9:59 PM
VOX Cinema 2 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
VOX Cinema 2 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
Producer
Thmanyah Llc
Cast
Aseel Baabdullah, Hadi Alhejaili, Haidar Alabdullah, Maysam Almania, Salih Haddad, Aseil Bafarat, Abdulaziz Almezzy, Mohammed Alhassan
Scriptwriter
Mazen Alotaibi
Middle East Distribution
Thmanyah
Thmanyah Llc
Cast
Aseel Baabdullah, Hadi Alhejaili, Haidar Alabdullah, Maysam Almania, Salih Haddad, Aseil Bafarat, Abdulaziz Almezzy, Mohammed Alhassan
Scriptwriter
Mazen Alotaibi
Middle East Distribution
Thmanyah
The King’s Poem, is a documentary produced by Thmanyah Company for Publishing and Distribution. It features the story of a young Saudi poet who receives the prestigious title The Prince of Poets (Amir Al-Shu’ara), and nominated later to recite a welcome poem before King Salman. However, one word would render this festive evening into a nightmare. Haydar Al-Abdullah and his poem gained sudden fame on Twitter after that evening. For six years now, the timeline is still haunted with tweets and video clips ridiculing his choice of the word Suknana. For the first time, we get to hear the story from the poet’s perspective. We go back to his childhood, his relationship with both the city of Al-Ahsa and the poet Jassim As-Sahih, then winning the titles of Okaz Youth Poet and The Prince of Poets. We go behind the scenes of the infamous evening in 2016, and the advice he received from the Prince of Al-Sharqiyyah Province, when the latter listened to the poem recital days before the ceremony. Finally, the poet opens up about the effect of the collective ridicule attack on him, and on his family and relatives.