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Red Sea Film Festival’s Lavish New HQ Reflects a Desire to See Arab Cinema Flourish
Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival has rapidly become the main movie industry hub for the Middle East and North Africa.
Shivani Pandya Malhotra, managing director of the Red Sea Film Foundation, which is the event’s parent organization, tells Variety that the festival was “always meant to take place in the district,” having done so in its inaugural edition, but only as a pop-up structure instead of the lavishly constructed space they will launch in December. These include Jordanian first-timer Amjad Al Rasheed’s dark drama about archaic patriarchal inheritance laws “Inshallah a Boy” and “Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo” a first feature by Egypt’s Khaled Mansour about a young man forced to confront his fears. These include the West African island nation of Cape Verde repped by Denise Fernandes’ magical realism coming-of-ager “Hanami” and Bangladesh with Maksud Hossain’s “Saba,” about a young woman who is the sole caregiver for her paraplegic mother in Dhaka.
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