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Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival Highlights Local Productions Depicting Social Change in Arab Galas Strand
Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival has announced its Arab Spectacular section, which is focused on launching new local productions.
The film follows a Bedouin family whose members are forced by its patriarch to live in isolation in the desert due to fear of an infectious disease during the 1990s when Saudi was starting to open up to the outside world. It tells the story of Salma — a young, privileged and rebellious Saudi girl — and her African driver, Gamar, who left his family and moved to Jeddah to earn a living. Rounding off the Red Sea Film Festival ‘s Arab Spectacular selection is prolific Algerian auteur Merzak Allouache’s wacky dramedy “Front Row,” about a feud that breaks out between matriarchs who are vying for the best spot at the beach; and Egyptian director Omar Bakry’s “Abdo & Saneya,” a silent, black-and-white film about an Egyptian couple who immigrates to New York City in search of a cure for infertility without having any notion of modern American life.
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