WITHIN SAND
Directed by: Mohammed Alatawi
This spectacular account of a young man making his way through the desert is one of the first Sau...
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THE LAST QUEEN
Directed by: Damien Ounouri, Adila Bendimerad
In 1516, Algerian king Salim Toumi accepted the help of feared pirate Aroudj Barbarossa to libera...
SHIMONI
Directed by: Angela Wanjiku Wamai
After seven years in prison, 35-year-old Geoffrey (Justin Mirichii) is released into the care of ...
RAVEN SONG
Directed by: Mohamed Al-Salman
Saudi director Mohamed Al Salman's feature film debut expands on the themes of his previous short...
OUR LADY OF THE CHINESE SHOP
Directed by: Ery Claver
Angolan director Ery Claver spins an allegory of modern Africa from this fable about a Chinese me...
NEZOUH
Directed by: Soudade Kaadan
Winner of the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival, Nezouh – which means “displacement” – f...
NEXT SOHEE
Directed by: July Jung
Sohee (Kim Si-eun) is studying pet care and is a talented dancer, full of life and determination,...
MOUNTAIN ONION
Directed by: Eldar Shibanov
Jabai, aged 11, lives with his family in a small village in Kazakhstan. His father is possibly th...
LAST FILM SHOW
Directed by: Pan Nalin
India’s official Oscar entry is both a fictional retelling of the director Pan Nalin’s boyhood an...
HARKA
Directed by: Lotfy Nathan
Harka is an impassioned plea for social justice set in Sidi Bouzid, the Tunisian city where the s...
HANGING GARDENS
Directed by: Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji
Taha and his younger brother As'ad (Wissam Diyaa) scrape a living searching for discarded metals ...
DIRTY DIFFICULT DANGEROUS
Directed by: Wissam Charaf
Deadpan humour may not be the first thing we associate with stories about doomed love or struggli...
BEFORE NOW AND THEN
Directed by: Kamila Andini
Nana (Happy Salma) is the much younger wife of the bullying Mr Darga (Arswendy Bening Swara), a l...
A SUMMER IN BOUJAD
Directed by: Omar Mouldouira
Seven years after the death of his mother, 13-year-old Karim has left Paris for Morocco with his ...
A CHILDLESS VILLAGE
Directed by: Reza Jamali
Kazem, an elderly film-maker, (Behrouz Allahverdizadeh) tried to shoot a documentary 20 years bef...
TURTLE SOUP
Directed by: Choānn
Aileen’s ex-husband refuses to elaborate on their eight-year-old son’s fight in school, so she se...
SPLIT ENDS
Directed by: Alireza Kazemipour
A young woman with a shaven head and her friend, a man with hair down to his shoulders, have thei...
SISTERS OF THE ROTATION
Directed by: Gaby Zarazir, Michel Zarazir
At Sisters of the Rotation’s convent, the Earth doesn’t spin by itself.
NIGHT STOP
Directed by: Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
From the acclaimed Somali-born director of The Gravediggers’ Wife, which had its premiere last ye...
NAIMA’S MOVIE
Directed by: Sami Saif Sirelkhatim
Amir, a filmmaker makes a film to honor Naima, his childhood nanny’s life and their close bond.
KROKA
Directed by: Samer Battikhi
All the theaters in town are controlled by the Brown Suits Committee, an old-fashioned greedy mid...
HOW I GREW UP
Directed by: Yufei Liu
Chinese animator Yufei Liu looked within himself for this story of an emotion that is powerful bu...
TSUTSUÉ
Directed by: Amartei Armar
Set in a small Ghanaian town surrounded by a looming landfill site that is tipping garbage into t...
THE INTRUSION
Directed by: Eden Junjung
A couple tries to dig up a freshly buried corpse in order to cut an ear from the body, believing ...
KERATIN DAY
Directed by: Sami Tlili
In a barbershop for men, it is keratin day. This means there is no shaving of beards or "ordinary...
IN THE LONG RUN
Directed by: Yousef Assabahi
Sent by his mother to buy bread for lunch, seven-year-old Ahmed runs through the historic alleywa...
EARTH IS WEEPING, ITS WATER ARE TEARS
Directed by: Mohammed Alghadhban
While Majed (30 years) is trying to find a way to express his concerns and feelings, many obstacl...
DALA BOATBREAKERS
Directed by: Kaung Swan Thar
A first film from an emerging Myanmar filmmaker, this short documentary unobtrusively observes a ...
ZOO
Directed by: Tariq Rimawi
Wandering through the worst zoo in the World, a young boy Sami is looking for his football. The l...
WILL MY PARENTS COME TO SEE ME
Directed 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 t...
THE WATER MURMURS
Directed by: Diam Chen
Chinese filmmaker Jianying Chen won the Palme D’Or at Cannes for the best short film with this po...
THE LAST DISPLACED
Directed by: Mohanad Al-Sudani
Wisam, a soldier in the Iraqi counter-terrorism service, had left his child during the war, and a...
NIGHT SHIFT
Directed by: Ali Mostafa
An ambulance worker on his night shift encounters a vampire, and must do everything he can to sav...
KOORA
Directed by: Ziyad Alzahrani
Two children living in a rural neighbourhood in Riyadh sneak into their neighbour’s house while h...
A BOY WHO CANNOT SEE THE BEAUTY
Directed by: Saurav Yadav
This vivid experimental film, brimming with influences from filmmakers ranging from Terrence Mali...
WARSHA
Directed by: Dania Bdeir
A Syrian builder in Beirut decides to replace a colleague who died in an accident in a towering, ...
VHS TAPE REPLACED
Directed by: Maha Al-Saati
Set in 1987, a young black Saudi man attempts to impress a girl by mimicking the music video of C...
THE STORM
Directed by: Wendi Tang
In late September 2008, Xiaomin, class president in her elementary school graduating class, is re...
SNOW IN SEPTEMBER
Directed by: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
Winner of both the best short film in the Orizzonti section in Venice and best international shor...
ON MY FATHER'S GRAVE
Directed by: Jawahine Zentar
Maine and her family are accompanying her father’s coffin to the small Moroccan village where he ...
A QUIET SUMMER
Directed by: Sis Gürdal
Ada, a 17-year-old Turkish teenager, faces social pressures from her multi-generational family wh...
WALK UP
Directed by: Hong Sangsoo
Korean miniaturist Hong Sang-soo serves up his signature blend of awkward meetings, table talk an...
UNDER THE FIG TREES
Directed by: Erige Sehiri
Inspired by a day spent at work with Fide Fdhili, the woman who would become the star of her film...
THE GRAVITY
Directed by: Cédric Ido
The crime-ridden Parisian banlieues are familiar from films such as La Haine and Les Miserables, ...
THE DAMNED DON’T CRY
Directed by: Fyzal Boulifa
After two award-winning short films at the Directors' Fortnight under his belt, Fyzal Boulifa pro...
THE BLUE CAFTAN
Directed by: Maryam Touzani
The traditional Moroccan caftan is handmade from precious fabric, every braided detail individual...
SONNE
Directed by: Kurdwin Ayub
Kurdish Austrian Yesmin (Melina Benli) isn’t especially religious, but she wears a hijab in publi...
SALAM
Directed 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 up ...
SAINT OMER
Directed by: Alice Diop
In 2013, all of France was captivated by the trial of a brilliant Senegalese student who had drow...
RICEBOY SLEEPS
Directed by: Anthony Shim
So-young (Choi Syung-yoon) was an abandoned baby raised in a Korean orphanage; when she comes as ...
RHINEGOLD
Directed by: Fatih Akin
Born during a bombing raid in a cave swarming with bats, Giwar Jajabi, aka Xatar, was never going...
NUCLEAR
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Director and Red Sea IFF Jury President Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global comm...
METRONOM
Directed by: Alexandru Belc
The year is 1972; Nikolai Ceausescu has ruled Romania with an iron fist for seven years. Politics...
LIVING
Directed by: Oliver Hermanus
Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro relocates Akira Kurosawa's 1952 masterpiece Ikiru to London, where ...
GODARD SEUL LE CINÉMA
Directed by: Cyril Leuthy
When he died in September, aged 91, French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard left behind around 140 ...
FALCON LAKE
Directed by: Charlotte Le Bon
Two teenagers develop a close bond when thrown together on a family holiday in Quebec, where they...
DOUNIA AND THE PRINCESS OF ALEPPO
Directed by: Marya Zarif, André Kadi
Six-year-old Dounia (brightly voiced by Rachaf Ataya) is forced to leave her home in Aleppo after...
ASHKAL
Directed by: Youssef Chebi
Elements of film noir, the traditional police procedural and political allegory come together in ...
ALAM
Directed by: Firas Khoury
High-school rebel Tamer and his gang are mostly committed to smoking weed, messing around in clas...
AJOOMMA
Directed by: He Shuming
Widowed Mrs Lim (played by veteran Singaporean actress Hong Huifang) divides her time between cos...
A.K.A.
Directed by: Geetika Narang Abbasi
Film star lookalikes are as much part of Indian popular culture as the revered actors who front t...
A GAZA WEEKEND
Directed by: Basil Khalil
Mild-mannered English journalist Michael (Stephen Mangan) is trapped in occupied Palestinian terr...
VALLEY ROAD
Directed by: Khaled Fahd
Ali is perceived by his family and the people of the beautiful Saudi Arabian mountain village whe...
QUEENS
Directed by: Yasmine Benkiran
With a nod to Thelma and Louise, Moroccan director Yasmine Benkiran follows two women and a young...
KAMLA
Directed by: John Ikram Sawers
Kamla is deeply committed to her work as a psychiatrist; her patients find her both supportive an...
HOW I GOT THERE
Directed by: Zeyad ( Z ) Alhusaini
When two childhood friends – now grown up and dabbling in the illegal alcohol trade – find a cach...
ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME
Directed by: Lara Saba
Award-winning Lebanese director Lara Saba turns her attention from frantic daily life in Beirut –...
AL KHALLAT +
Directed by: Fahad Alammari
From the creators of the digital series Al Khallat, which amassed over 1.5 billion views and defi...
WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Directed by: Shekhar Kapur
How do you find lasting love in today’s world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe (L...
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Directed by: Ruben Östlund
Swedish satirist Ruben Ostlund joined a very exclusive club of two-time Cannes Palme d'Or winners...
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
Directed by: Martin Mcdonagh
Every day for as long as anyone remembers, dairy farmer Padraic (Colin Farrell) has stopped by th...
STEWART
Directed by: Patrick Mark
Legendary racing-car driver Jackie Stewart, who was known as “the Flying Scot” during his Formula...
REBEL
Directed by: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Belgian-Moroccan directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah bring the action movie techniques and e...
HUNT
Directed by: Lee Jung-jae
The real-life political scheming and scattergun extra-judicial executions that followed the 1979 ...
EMPIRE OF LIGHT
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Olivia Colman is extraordinary as Hilary, the smiling, efficient, middle-aged manager of a beauti...
DECISION TO LEAVE
Directed by: Park Chan-Wook
Korean master Park Chan-wook, notorious for the extremes of violence and sex in films such as Old...
BROKER
Directed by: Hirokazu Koreeda
Makeshift families have been an enduring theme in the work of Hirokazu Koreeda, arguably the grea...
BONES AND ALL
Directed by: Luca Guadagnino
“Bones and All” is a story of first love between Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman learning h...
SLAVE
Directed by: Mansour Assad
Sakkir and his wife Latifa made a movie, but it enraged society. As a result, Sakkir struggled wi...
SATTAR
Directed by: Abdullah Al-Arak
Saad, a young man who loves professional wrestling, gets excited when EEW, a professional wrestli...
KING OF THE RING
Directed by: Mohammed Saeed Harib
Musaab is a loveable loser, with big hopes, big heart and an even bigger belly. But he also has b...
TEA LEAF
Directed by: Mohammed Baqer
As he enjoys his customary tea, a former husband recalls scenes from his marriage to his ex-wife....
OTHMAN
Directed by: Khaled Zidan
Othman works as a security guard at a government hospital's parking lot and lives harmoniously wi...
MEMORIES FROM THE NORTH
Directed by: Abdulmohsen Almutairi
Thirty years after the 1991 Gulf War, a group of filmmakers who were children during the hostilit...
A SWING
Directed by: Raneem Almohandes, Dana Almohandes
Leen’s military father used to tell her stories of a magical swing that exists out there in the w...
YALLAH, YALLAH, BEENAH!
Directed by: Mohammed Hammad
Away we go down the rabbit hole into a fun fantasy. A film junkie, whose house is a shrine to cin...
WHEN RED BLOOMS
Directed by: Tala Alharbi
Winner of the Red Sea's 48-hour Filmmaking Challenge, Tala Alharbi’s film ventures into the mind ...
THE KING'S POEM
Directed by: Abdulwahab Bin Shaddad
The King’s Poem, is a documentary produced by Thmanyah Company for Publishing and Distribution. I...
THE CHILD IN HIS OWN CLOSET
Directed by: Khaled Zidan
Khaled Zidan’s film was one of the winning films in the Red Sea’s 48-hour Filmmaking Challenge, w...
MATCHSTICK
Directed by: Salma Murad
Told in a style that recalls German Expressionism, Kabreet is the story of a young man pulled bet...
LAST CHANCE TO FALL IN LOVE
Directed by: Faisal Buhaishi
In this touching, poignant story, an old man finally gets the chance to reunite with his first lo...
FORWARD
Directed by: Fahad Alotaibi
An underground hacker gets a phone call from the future that warns him that something serious is ...
CASTING
Directed by: Ali Baseed
Frustrated by inquisitive people’s interference in his personal life, the character at the centre...
ZABARJAD
Directed by: Hussain Almutliq
Yehya has dropped out of college and returns to his home village in Saudi Arabia, determined to s...
REQUIEM FOR SILENCE
Directed by: Majed Z. Samman
Majed explores his struggle with an unwanted malicious entity that unexpectedly comes into his li...
OLD PHONE NUMBER
Directed by: Ali Saeed
Hamed's mid-life crisis prompts him to repent and change the course of his life, (deciding to go ...
LUCKY YOU'RE MINE
Directed by: Nora Abu Shusha
A modern Saudi marriage story. Ahmad and Salma are newlywed, and days after the wedding, Salma ex...
FORGIVE ME
Directed by: Jabriel Mohammad
On the day she imagined would be the most special of her life, a new bride is abandoned by her hu...
OCTOPUS
Directed by: Karim Kassem
Lebanese filmmaker Karim Kassem returned to Beirut in 2020, intending to make another film altoge...
LOST TREASURES OF ARABIA: THE ANCIENT CITY OF DADAN
Directed by: Dirk Verheye, Inti Calfat
The ancient city of Dadan, home to the Dadanite and Lihyanite kingdoms in North West Arabia is me...
KHAMSA - THE WELL OF OBLIVION
Directed by: Vynom
A little boy wakes up, finds himself at the bottom of a dark well and realises he can’t remember ...
GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE
Directed by: Jacquelyn Mills
Zoe Lucas was an art student when she first hitched a ride with a journalist to isolated Sable Is...
FRAGMENTS FROM HEAVEN
Directed by: Adnane Baraka
Two men comb the Moroccan desert, famous for its recurring meteorite falls, for these stones that...
ENYS MEN
Directed by: Mark Jenkin
A lone wildlife volunteer is stationed in the only house on Enys Men (which means Stone Island in...
AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD
Directed by: Nadim Mishlawi
Suspended between a brutal past and an uncertain future, the battered city of Beirut exists in a ...
A HUMAN POSITION
Directed by: Anders Emblem
Set in the picturesque Norwegian town of Alesund, on a fjord surrounded by mountains, Anders Embl...
THE BLACK PHARAOH, THE SAVAGE AND THE PRINCESS
Directed by: Michel Ocelot
Three tales, three places and three very different worlds, all made visually exquisite by the hug...
PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH
Directed by: Joel Crawford
The world’s smallest swashbuckler faces the horrible realisation that although cats have nine liv...
MAIKA
Directed by: Ham Tran
When eight-year-old science enthusiast Hung (Phu Truong Lai) sees a star fall to Earth not far fr...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO
Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro, Mark Gustafson
Academy Award®-winning director Guillermo del Toro and award winning, stop-motion legend Mark Gus...
BIGMAN
Directed by: Camiel Schouwenaar
Twelve-year-old Dylan (Maike Cillekens) and his best friend Youssef (Anouar Kasmi) live, eat and ...
THE HEYSEL TRAGEDY
Directed by: Jan Verheyen, Jean-Philippe Leclaire
It was the tragedy that would change football forever and shake sports fans everywhere. The Heyse...
ROGUE HEROES
Directed by: Tom Shankland
How the SAS was formed becomes a ripping yarn, peppered with extra swearing, violence and pranks,...
ABOUT SASHA
Directed by: Yaël Langmann, Jérémy Mainguy
Sasha (Angele Metzger) is 17 and has recently moved cities with her family starting at a new high...
STRANGER THAN ROTTERDAM
Directed by: Lewie Kloster, Noah Kloster
Jim Jarmusch’s producer and partner Sara Driver turns out to be an engaging storyteller in her ow...
STRANGER THAN PARADISE
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch’s landmark indie road movie, made on a minuscule budget, won the Cannes Camera D’Or ...
WATCH OUT FOR ZOUZOU
Directed by: Hassan Al-Imam
By day, Zouzou is a serious theatre student at a prestigious Egyptian university, popular with he...
THE GRAND ILLUSION
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Orson Welles described Jean Renoir's 1937 humanist masterpiece as one of two films he would have ...
SAMBIZANGA
Directed by: Sarah Maldoror
Sarah Maldoror, a pioneer of African film-making, brings a woman’s perspective to the explosive b...
PONYO
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to be...
MALCOLM X
Directed by: Spike Lee
Often misunderstood, Malcolm X was one of the leading forces of the United States' Civil Rights M...
LOVE IN KARNAK
Directed by: Ali Reda
A sparkling showcase for the trailblazing Reda Troupe of folkloric dancers, this classic film – d...
ICE CREAM IN GLYM
Directed by: Khairy Beshara
After more than 25 years, this film still comes to mind when mentioning the Egyptian superstar Am...
DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE
Directed by: Aditya Chopra
The love story of Raj and Simran is virtually synonymous with romance in Bollywood; Aditya Chopra...
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
Directed by: Gurinder Chadha
BILB is the story of Jess Bhambra who dreams for playing football liek her hero David Beckham whi...
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
Directed by: Gurinder Chadha
BILB is the story of Jess Bhambra who dreams for playing football liek her hero David Beckham whi...
THE MAN WHO COULDN'T LEAVE
Directed by: Singing Chen
Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories ...
SHORES OF LOCI
Directed by: Ellen Utrecht
Shores of Loci maximises the full potential of VR to immerse yourself into epic environments of m...
REIMAGINED VOLUME 1: NYSSA
Directed by: Julie Cavaliere
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm folktale, A Tale of the Boy Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was,...
ON THE MORNING YOU WAKE TO THE END OF THE WORLD
Directed by: Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Pierre Zandrowicz, Arnaud Colinart
On a regular Saturday morning in January 2018, as Hawaiian citizens went about their daily routin...
KINGDOM OF PLANTS WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
Directed by: Iona Mcewan
Welcome to a strange and dangerous world: the Kingdom of Plants. Immerse yourself in the otherwis...
ITHRA CREATIVE SOLUTIONS SHOWCASE
Directed by:
The Creative Solutions programme set up by Ithra (part of Saudi Aramco) is the first development ...
FROM THE MAIN SQUARE
Directed by: Pedro Harres
Encircling its central square, a new town emerges in all its diversity. A crossroad of stories, e...
EURYDICE
Directed by: Celine Daemen
"Eurydice, een afdaling in oneindigheid is a Virtual Reality opera inspired by the ancient myth o...
ELELE
Directed by: Sjoerd Van Acker
At times psychedelic at times meditative, Elele is a sensory and intuitive VR experience featurin...
EGGSCAPE
Directed by: German Heller
A Mixed Reality experience about a terrified little egg struggling to stay alive in a world full ...
(HI)STORY OF A PAINTING
Directed by: Gaëlle Mourre, Quentin Darras
An animated 6DoF VR series aimed at engaging young audiences with art by creating intimate, gripp...
In-Conversation with Spike Lee
One of the greatest directors in cinema's history, Spike Lee, has been wowing audiences ever sinc...
In-Conversation with Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone is more than a movie star: she is an icon. She is an international recognised actres...
In-Conversation with Ranbir Kapoor
When your ancestors are some of the greatest names in Bollywood history, it takes some doing not ...
In-Conversation with Nelly Karim
Nelly Karim, a leading actress in the Arab World, started her career off as a Prima Ballerina. Sh...
In-Conversation with Nadine Labaki
Her cinema was different from the start. From her first feature film, she wanted to show the Arab...
In-Conversation with Mo Amer
Mo Amir is an Arab-American stand-up comedian who appeared as diner owner Mo on the hit TV series...
In-Conversation with Michel Ocelot
Michel Ocelot is a legend of the animation world. Born in the French Riviera, he spent his childh...
In-Conversation with Luca Guadagnino
Luca Guadagnino won the Silver Lion for Best Director at this year’s Venice Film Festival for hel...
In-Conversation with Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan’s winning combination of cheeky humour and dazzling action stunts – almost all of whi...
In-Conversation with Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik, is one of India’s most bankable superstars, having broken multiple box office records in...
In-Conversation with Guy Ritchie
The Red Sea IFF is proud to present this rare opportunity to hear British Film Director Guy Ritch...
In-Conversation with Gurinder Chadha
Writer, director and producer Gurinder Chadha began her career making documentaries for the BBC. ...
In-Conversation with Gaspar Noé
Gaspar Noe has a reputation for making films that you will watch with your hands covering your ey...
In-Conversation with Fatih Akin
The virtuoso director Fatih Akin won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2024 with his...
In-Conversation with Antonio Banderas
When Antonio Banderas came to Hollywood he spoke very little English, but used his strong accent ...
In-Conversation with Andy Garcia
Oscar-nominated actor Andy Garcia has been a shining light in so many great movies over the years...
In-Conversation with Andrew Dominik
Andrew Dominik’s latest film Blonde, about the troubled life of Marilyn Monroe, has been the talk...
In-Conversation with Akshay Kumar
Do you want to know what happens behind the scenes in Bollywood? The irrepressible Akshay Kumar w...
In-Conversation with Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah
Adil and Bilall are best known for directing the sequel Bad Boys for Life, and one can only imagi...