{"id":25071,"date":"2023-05-31T12:05:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T12:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/?post_type=press&p=25071"},"modified":"2023-06-12T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T09:00:05","slug":"red-sea-documentary-film-days-at-hayy-cinema-in-jeddah-presents-a-roster-of-acclaimed-international-and-saudi-documentary-films-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/press\/red-sea-documentary-film-days-at-hayy-cinema-in-jeddah-presents-a-roster-of-acclaimed-international-and-saudi-documentary-films-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Red Sea Documentary Film Days\u2019 at Hayy Cinema in Jeddah Presents a Roster of Acclaimed International and Saudi Documentary Films This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red Sea Film Festival Foundation (<\/span>RSIFF) <\/span>and Art Jameel, an organisation that supports artists and creative communities, announce a collaborative summer film programme that brings together international and Saudi documentary films to Hayy Cinema, Saudi Arabia\u2019s first independent cinema and audio-visual centre in Jeddah. <\/span>Red Sea Documentary Film Days<\/b> (<\/span>June 8-25, 2023<\/b>) presents six acclaimed documentary films from France, Guinea, Syria, Iraq and Saudi, exploring migration, camaraderie and cinema archives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Co-curated by <\/span>RSIFF <\/b>and <\/span>Art Jameel<\/b>, the selection showcases three international documentary films supported by <\/span>The Red Sea Fund<\/b> and three homegrown Saudi films. Together, the six films follow the documentarian\u2019s camera, exploring the breadth of directorial modes that look at how theatre, cinema and television influence the auteur’s life and those around them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cDocumentaries are an integral and important part of film culture\u201d, said <\/span>Mohammed Al Turki, CEO of the Red Sea Film Foundation<\/b>, \u201cIt makes us reflect on what\u2019s important as it also educates, raises awareness and changes opinions on many different issues. We are excited to showcase this medium as documentaries become more popular than ever, winning many of world cinema\u2019s top festival prizes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Antonia Carver, Director of Art Jameel<\/b>, added: \u201cWe are thrilled to bring Red Sea Documentary Film Days to Hayy Jameel and the wider Saudi public, extending Jeddah\u2019s annual December \u201cfilm festival spirit\u201d throughout the year. Documentary films possess the power to unlock diverse perspectives, tell compelling stories, foster empathy and deepen our understanding. This is our third time collaborating with RSIFF on a stellar programme, underpinned by efforts to nurture an independent and homegrown film culture in Jeddah that fosters critical thinking, curiosity and creative expression and that opens up a world of cinema for all ages and backgrounds.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2018Red Sea Documentary Film Days\u2019 at Hayy Cinema includes:<\/b><\/p>\n

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Becoming Iphigenia<\/i><\/b> (2022)\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Country: Syria<\/b><\/p>\n

Director: Reem Alghazzi; Producer: Ramzy Haddad<\/b><\/p>\n

A casting call brings together nine young Syrian women, aged between 20 and 27 years old, who have recently settled in Germany. They were chosen among several others to perform for the first time on stage, in a contemporary adaptation of the Greek tragedy Iphigenia, by Euripides, in the vein of what is known as \u201cdocumentary theatre\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Cemetery of Cinema<\/i><\/b> (2023)<\/b><\/p>\n

Country: Guinea\/France<\/b><\/p>\n

Director: Thierno Soleymane Diallo; Producer: Maud Martin<\/b><\/p>\n

In 1953, Mamadou Tour\u00e9 directed <\/span>Mouramani<\/span><\/i>, the first film made by a black African francophone which largely remains a mystery. Everyone has heard of it, but no one has seen it. No one knows where to find a copy if one even existed. A massive hit at the Berlin Film Festival, <\/span>The Cemetery of Cinema<\/span><\/i> is the search for that film.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My Lost Country<\/i><\/b> (2022)<\/b><\/p>\n

Country: Iraq<\/b><\/p>\n

Director: Ishtar Yasin; Producer(s): Ishtar Yasin\/ Meedo Ali\/<\/b> Hala Lotfy<\/b><\/p>\n

Iraqi theatre director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin has spent much of his life in involuntary exile. His daughter, Ishtar Yasin Guti\u00e9rrez, has constructed a loving film portrait of her father, and an elegy for a homeland to which they can never return. She tracks her father\u2019s global travels using family photographs, theatre posters and newspaper clippings, as well as sound recordings and extracts from letters they sent to one another, with stamps from Costa Rica, Chile and Denmark.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Memories from the North<\/i><\/b> (2022)<\/b><\/p>\n

Country: Saudi Arabia<\/b><\/p>\n

Director: Abdulmohsen Almutairi; Producer: Sultan Alayed<\/b><\/p>\n

It’s been 30 years since the Gulf War of 1990-1991 and a crew of filmmakers who witnessed the events as children set out on a journey across Saudi Arabia to capture stories of people who lived through the war.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The King\u2019s Poem<\/i><\/b> (2022)<\/b><\/p>\n

Country: Saudi Arabia<\/b><\/p>\n

Director: Abdulwahab Bin Shaddad<\/b><\/p>\n

The King\u2019s Poem<\/span><\/i> is a documentary produced by Thmanyah Company for Publishing and Distribution. It recounts<\/span> the story of a young Saudi poet who receives the prestigious title\u00a0The Prince of Poets (Amir Al-Shu\u2019ara) and is<\/span> nominated to recite a welcome poem before King Salman. However, one word would turn this festive evening into a nightmare.\u00a0Haydar Al-Abdullah and his poem gained sudden fame on Twitter after that evening. For six years now, the poet\u2019s timeline is still haunted with tweets and video clips ridiculing his choice of the word\u00a0<\/span>Suknana<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yallah, Yallah, Beenah!<\/i><\/b> (2022)<\/b><\/p>\n

Country: Saudi Arabia<\/b><\/p>\n

Director: Mohammed Hammad<\/b><\/p>\n

A <\/span>film junkie, whose house is a shrine to cinema, revels in describing his wares to a documentary film crew when presto, we find ourselves slipping through a wormhole. In a parallel universe, a gang of pre-teen kids are sent on a psychedelic mission to save humanity and escape the spell laid on them by a coven of witches.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To learn more about the programme and book tickets, visit <\/span>hayycinema.org<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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