Project Market Juries
Red Sea Souk Projects-in-Development Jury
is a film and TV executive producer and strategic advisor known for his pioneering role in shaping Saudi Arabia’s film and media industry. He is currently Head of Distribution and Advisor to the CEO at Sela Studios, one of the region’s fastest-growing film studios, where he oversees content strategy, distribution, and investment.
Previously, Abdulrahman was a creative executive at Netflix, helping shape the platform’s Arabic-language film and series slate with a focus on Saudi content.
He began his career as founder of Cinepoetics Pictures, a Jeddah-based production company behind Saleeg, which premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France. He now also serves as CEO of Kawkab Pictures, an independent entertainment company focused on financing and distributing innovative film and TV projects.
Abdulrahman is an alumnus of Film Independent, Berlinale Talents, and EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs).
is a producer at Haut et Court. After having participated in the production of films such as Only the Animals and The Night of the 12th by Dominik Moll (7 César Awards), Gagarine by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh (Cannes Film Festival 2020), or A Chiara by Jonas Carpignano, he has gone on producing feature films and acclaimed international coproductions such as Santosh by Sandhya Suri (Cannes – Un certain Regard 2024, shortlisted for the 2025 Academy Award for Best International Film), the animated film, Hola Frida which premiered at the 2024 Morelia Film Festival and was sold all over the world, Sukkwan Island by Vladimir de Fontenay (in competition at Sundance Film Festival 2025), Nino in Paradise, by Laurent Micheli (in competition, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025), or Yellow Letters by Ilker Çaak. He is currently producing several features and TV series.
She started producing film in 2008, Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly, New Currents Competition at Busan. Continue with Postcards from the Zoo, 2012, in Competition at Berlinale.
In 2016 she co-founded Palari Films (Jakarta, Indonesia) and produced Posesif (2017, SGIFF), Aruna & Her Palate (2018, Culinary Cinema, Berlinale). Both films also won several domestic awards such as Best Director, Best Actress, Best Script Adaptation & Best Supporting Actor.
In 2021, she won the Golden Leopard at Locarno for Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, and Best Cinematography at Valladolid, Spain. She also released Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens, a Netflix Original which was no. 1 in Indonesia & Malaysia, and became the Most Search ‘Film Title’ in Indonesia by Google. In the same year,
At this moment she has a film in post-production, Sleep No More, a co-production between Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Germany, and France.
Red Sea Souk Works-in-Progress Jury
is a Palestinian filmmaker whose work explores themes of displacement, identity, and memory through both fiction and documentary. Based between Denmark and Greece, he graduated from the UK’s National Film & Television School and founded the London-based production company Nakba FilmWorks in 2010.
His debut feature, A World Not Ours, premiered at Toronto and won over 30 awards, including the Berlinale Peace Prize and Grand Jury Prizes at Yamagata and DOC:NYC. He went on to receive the Silver Bear at Berlinale for A Man Returned, a BAFTA nomination for A Drowning Man, and an IDFA award for I Signed the Petition.
Fleifel’s latest film, To a Land Unknown, premiered at Cannes 2024 to widespread acclaim and received the Silver Yusr at the 2024 Red Sea Film Festival.
is the Artistic Director of Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival. Since 2008, he is a Consultant of Venice International Film Festival. As a film programmer and industry consultant, he previously worked for Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, Locarno Open Doors, IFFRotterdam, the Doha Film Institute, Udine Far East FF, Torino FF, Cannes’ Semaine de la Critique, Mumbai IFF, Beijing IFF, IFFBratislava.
He has production credits on Berlinale Competition entries Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories by Phan Dang Di and A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery by Lav Diaz.
He is a member of the European Film Academy, Film Independent and of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards Academy.
is a director and screenwriter who first gained recognition with her early short films, including The List (2009), which won a BAFTA Cymru Award, and Mwansa the Great (2011), which was BAFTA-nominated and selected for over 100 international film festivals. Her debut feature, I Am Not a Witch (2017), won her the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer and the Douglas Hickox Award at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA), where she also won Best Director. Her follow-up, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024), premiered at Cannes, where it received the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Director. She went on to win Best Director at BIFA once again making her a two-time recipient of the award for both of her feature films.
Red Sea SeriesLab Jury
is the President of International at Anonymous Content, overseeing the company’s international division. This includes its various global joint ventures – AC Nordic, AC Brazil, AC España, AC Chapter One in the UK, AC Germany, AC Australia, and the latest addition, AC Italy.
Prior to joining Anonymous Content, Davoli was the President of Television at BRON Studios, where he oversaw development, production, co-productions, financing, and sales, and was the key dealmaker across all television efforts. He pioneered BRON’s international television strategy, where he identified IP, cultivated key relationships with creators, production companies, and broadcasters around the world, generated and managed complex international co-productions, raised over $125M in production financing, built out and provided a full studio service to service and deliver those co-productions, and sold into territories across the world, including key US market. Before joining BRON, Davoli was in private practice for 13 years as an entertainment attorney, where he worked as production, finance, and distribution counsel on over 50 independent film, television and new media programs, and spent a decade developing a keen knowledge of the international marketplace.
is a Saudi writer and filmmaker whose work has garnered national and international recognition. Her screenplay Hadaf earned the Silver Palm Tree Award for Best Script at the Saudi Film Competition in 2008. Her documentary Beyond Words was screened at the Gulf Film Festival (2009) and selected for the main competition at the Muscat Film Festival (2010).
Her second film, The Complaint, was featured in the main competition at Tessa’s Festival for Asian and African Films in Morocco (2014) and went on to win the Golden Palm Tree Award for Best Short Fiction Film in 2015.
In 2019, her short film Swan Song received the Golden Palm Tree Award for Best Actor at the Saudi Film Festival. The following year, she co-wrote and directed Whispers, Netflix’s first Saudi original series. She also penned the script for Sharshaf, which was awarded a $500,000 production grant from the Red Sea Lodge.
Alomair currently serves as Chairperson of the Cinema Association. In 2024, she joined MBC Studios as Creative Director and recently filmed her debut feature film, Traveler’s Hell which will be released in theatres 2026.
is an award-winning film producer/ director, visual artist and writer. She is a member of The Academy (Oscars) since 2017 and has directed more than 15 films. Her visual art exhibitions have travelled to renowned museums and Biennales around the world. Her writings include many essays in renowned publications and has published books “Les Sept Vies de Yasser Arafat” (Grasset) and “Israel and the Arabs, The 50 Years war” (Penguin). She is a film mentor in various film labs. El Tahri serves on boards and International film organisations including IDA, PFI, FEPACI and The Guild of Filmmakers in the Diaspora.
