{"id":796,"date":"2021-01-11T09:56:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/?post_type=films&#038;p=796"},"modified":"2021-03-23T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T02:48:10","slug":"shams-almaarif-the-book-of-sun","status":"publish","type":"films","link":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/films\/shams-almaarif-the-book-of-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Shams Alma\u2019arif (The Book of Sun)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s joined in his pursuit by his best friend Maan (Ismail Alhasan), their one-time foe Ibrahim (Ahmed Saddam), and Orabi (Sohayb Godus), a teacher with a passion for filmmaking. In the middle of their senior year, they set out to produce a no-budget horror movie \u2013 a wild adventure that will put their futures at risk. An insider\u2019s look at the origins of cinema in Saudi Arabia and the energy that informs today\u2019s scene.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on the passion and ambition that drove the Godus brother\u2019s own journey \u2013 from early home videos and YouTube content, to early film collectives, all the way through to cinema.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers\u2019 previous works include the short film \u201cDepressing Scene\u201d (2016) and the Saudi Ramadan TV series \u201cAnother Planet\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s joined in his pursuit by his best friend Maan (Ismail Alhasan), their one-time foe Ibrahim (Ahmed Saddam), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2749,"template":"","country":[44],"duration":[45],"rating":[12],"program":[],"class_list":["post-796","films","type-films","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-ksa","duration-2h","rating-pg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/films"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}