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Andrew Garfield and Benedict Cumberbatch React to ‘We Live in Time’ Screening Uncensored in Saudi Arabia: ‘It’s an Inspiring Thing That’s Happening Here’


Andrew Garfield and Benedict Cumberbatch speak on burgeoning film industry in Saudi Arabia: 'Curious about how a culture can open up.'

One of the buzziest screenings of this year’s Red Sea Film Festival, John Crowley’s “We Live in Time” attracted droves of young, eager audience members to Jeddah’s Culture Square on Monday night. This is, in fact, the second time Garfield attends Red Sea, having done so last year for an in-conversation event and to visit the sprawling region of AlUla where films like “Cherry” and “Kandahar” were shot. Cumberbatch, who produced “We Live in Time” under his SunnyMarch productions banner, tells Variety that culture — and filmmaking, in this case — is the “thing that starts to shape the perception and gear shift in societal terms.

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