The festival presents a cinematic panorama of the city of Jeddah, captured by Safouh Naamani, developed and restored by the Red Sea Film Festival Foundation. This unique Jeddah footage was captured by Naamani – one of the pioneers of photography and filmmaking in Saudi Arabia – from 1954–1968, on his 16 mm camera. The Red […]
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This epic political thriller is a semi-fictionalized account of the assassination of progressive Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis, which took place in 1963. On its release in 1969, it paved the way for political cinema in France. An all-star cast is led by Jean-Louis Trintignant, who plays the magistrate. Through his investigation, he uncovers and highlights […]
Continue readingSomewhere in the Moroccan desert, a thief (Younes Bouab)leaves his car at the foot of a hill to climb to the top to bury a satchel full of money – and get caught by the police. Ten years later, released from prison, he returns to unearth his bounty, but a mausoleum has been built on […]
Continue readingSelma Derwish (Golshifteh Farahani) is a psychoanalyst, after working in France, she returns to Tunis and opens a private practice in a busy suburb. It’s a far cry from her time in France and things get off to a rocky start, some of the patients mistaking Freud and his beard for a Muslim brother. Selma […]
Continue readingMexican filmmaker Fernando Frias de la Parra’s fresh take on this coming-of-age narrative sees the rough road of growth collide with issues of identity. From the streets of Mexico to the immigrant communities of New York City, the film tracks the lives of a group of young men brought together around a measured, melancholic local […]
Continue readingTwo women meet in a New York park for the first time. This everyday scene is transformed into a reflection on the digital textures of everyday life, composed as a fractured collage of iPhone footage. The real-life conversation becomes a 360° Cubist world, a hyper-stimulating environment where Nic Koller and Weston Rio Morgan push the […]
Continue readingPlaying with the idea of self – and selfishness – acclaimed visual artist Joan Ross’ latest interactive experience is knowingly superficial, exploring what VR can achieve when put to untoward ends. Deploying humor and bending space, this is a multilayered critique of colonial history, globalization, and capitalism, taking a cynical and incisive look at their […]
Continue reading“The Old Ones” (2019), is an immersive VR installation that builds on a series of experiments and investigations that artist Ayman Zedani has conducted over the past couple of years, concerning consumption in the contemporary gulf, and its impact on the natural environment. The virtual space is a speculative landscape, a fictional representation of an […]
Continue reading“The Key” is the newest virtual reality experience from acclaimed storyteller and directorCeline Tricart. It brings together her distinctive aesthetics, documentary edge, and eye for humanism. Viewers must help to solve challenges to unlock the mystery of “The Key.” Through dreamscapes and interactive tasks, the narrative prompts difficult reflections and decisions around loss. Animated […]
Continue readingAn immersive installation that plunges the viewer into the world of cartography and navigation. “May This Night Have No Darkness” explores the intricate beauty and expansive possibilities of instruments such as Astrolabes, two-dimensional models of the celestial sphere which were once the most used astronomical devices. Developed in the medieval Islamic world by Muslim astronomers, […]
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