With Dubai and Abu Dhabi film festival having drawn their screens some years ago and with Cairo, the oldest such event in the region, still tottering, the youngest at the Red Sea is pulling all the stops to make its third edition sparkle.
We have already written that the Red Sea International Film Festival at Jeddah in Saudi Arabia will open with Hwjin, a Saudi romantic comedy. It is based on a Saudi fantasy novel.
The Festival will close on December 7 with Ferrari, the biopic from Michael Mann starring Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley and Patrick Dempsey.
Mohammed Al-Turki, CEO of the Red Sea Film Foundation, said: “This exhilarating movie has been close to the Festival’s ‘heart,’ as it has been supported by our Red Sea International Film Financing, a vehicle for us to champion acclaimed storytellers and create the opportunity for cultural exchange. Michael Mann’s powerful film shows true craftsmanship and empathy for the ambitious genius behind one of the world’s most desired works of design.”
The Festival also unveiled the lineup for the International Spectacular Programme, which presents “cinema from around the globe and features celebrated auteurs and international filmmaking icons.”
The section will show us some of the most highly anticipated and talked about movies of the year, screened for the first time in the Arab world.”
This will include Sofia Coppola’s biopic “Priscilla,” Ava Duvernay’s “Origin,” John Woo’s “Silent Night,” Lea Domenach’s “Bernadette” (“The President’s Wife”), Aardman’s Sam Fell-directed “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget,” and Yann Mounir Demange’s short “Dammi,” starring Riz Ahmed.
Japan’s iconic animation Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” will screen as the public closing movie. The film features an English voice cast including Christian Bale as Shoichi Maki, Dave Bautista as The Parakeet King, Gemma Chan as Natsuko, Willem Dafoe as Noble Pelican, Karen Fukuhara as Lady Himi, Mark Hamill as Granduncle, Robert Pattinson as The Gray Heron and Florence Pugh as Kiriko.
The Festival begins on November 30.
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