2h – Red Sea Film

A Quiet Place Part II

After the captivating 2018 concept-horror, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) return in their post-apocalyptic world of silence, this time to face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the blind creatures that hunt by sound and who have killed much of the […]

Sweet day, Bitter day

One of the essential films of the Egyptian neo-realist wave, of which Beshara was a leading proponent, with his uncompromising commitment to the truth. Aisha (Faten Hamama) is a widower with five children, Sanaa (Hanan Youssef), Suad (Abla Kamel), Lamia (Simone), Asmaa (Salwa Mohamed Ahmed) and her youngest Noor. When her eldest daughter Sanaa gets […]

Houseboat No. 70

The film that launched Egypt’s neo-realist wave, the movement pioneered by Khairy Beshara. Documentary maker Ahmed Al Shazly (Ahmed Zaki) is shooting a film about a cotton gin – a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds – when a worker (Ahmed Bedair) reveals the extent of the corruption in the […]

Masameer

In the past decade, “Masameer” has established itself as an iconic animation that takes a witty look at Saudi society. One of the most successful series across the Middle East, it has now been adapted into a hotly anticipated motion picture. In two storylines, new characters are introduced, alongside those we have come to know […]

Resistance

‘Chaplin, not Hitler’ is the refrain of an unexpected resistance, inspired by a spirit of imagination. The story of aFrench secret network which saved the orphaned children of Jewish families from the Nazis, and the legendary mime who was part of its ranks. Marcel Marceau (Jesse Eisenberg) is the iconic silent hero, who sustained children’s […]

Shams Alma’arif (The Book of Sun)

With support and finance from the Red Sea Film Festival Foundation. In 2010, at the peak of the Saudi YouTube movement, high school senior Husam (Baraa Alem) finds himself drawn into the world of video production. He’s joined in his pursuit by his best friend Maan (Ismail Alhasan), their one-time foe Ibrahim (Ahmed Saddam), and […]