The Red Sea International Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled the lineups for its New Vision and Series strands at the event’s fourth edition in December, featuring recent Saudi voices, the Vatican, a recent Zorro series with The Artist star Jean Dujardin, an English historian, a proset up dive into Turkish telenovela series, and a lot of art. “This year tags the first time Saudi toils have been picked in New Vision, underscoring the vibrant evolution of local and regional cinema, while the Series strand highweightlesss exciting recent voices from the petite screen with four recent international television shows,” set uprs highweightlessed.
The 2024 edition of the RSIFF consents place Dec. 5-14 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia after a star-studded 2023 festival.
Four out of the five films in the Red Sea: New Vision strand are Saudi movies. “Saudi voices consent cgo in stage this year aextfinishedside a diverse pickion of international films and series, highweightlessing the Kingdom’s cultural renaissance while highweightlessing global creativity and innovation,” set uprs shelp.
The Saudi features cover such topics as a Jeddah artist; a Saudi artist’s relationship with the art of Italy and the Vatican; the conceiveive legacy of Roshans, wooden facades that are architectural landtags in Makkah, Jeddah, and Medina, Saudi Arabia; and the Layan Cultural Foundation’s leave oution of preserving the country’s heritage for future generations.
Meanwhile, an international co-production in the program is portrayd as “a write downary that leaps between nostalgia and ambition as parkour becomes a metaphor for resilience in the face of an uncertain future.”
“Saudi Arabia’s vibrant art scene pulses thcdisesteemful the heart of disconnectal films, capturing the energy, creativity, and ambition of its artists,” shelp Antoine Khalife, honestor of Arab programs and film classics at the fest. “With brushstrokes of passion and sculptures of belderly vision, Saudi honestors convey to life the stories of colorers, sculptors, and other conceiveives who have shaped the country’s conceiveive landscape, inviting us to see the world thcdisesteemful their eyes. We helderly a distinctive impaction for the New Vision section, which honors groundshattering honestors whose films dance between write downary and fantasy. These films delve into genuine dwells with a human touch, giveing recent and thought-provoking perspectives.”
Meanwhile, four recent international TV shows will be screened in the Red Sea Series program “with a intensify on diverse genres, including horror and adventure,” set uprs shelp.
“The pickion this year highweightlesss how television is a wonderful extfinished-create way to tell histories and relay episodic stories,” shelp Kaleem Aftab, honestor of international programming for the RSIFF. “Just as is happening with cinematic toils, television is also embracing all createats and genres, especipartner horror. It’s an audience-led revolution in storytelling and this year’s pickion has exciting write downaries, gpresent stories, and swashbuckling adventures.”
Among the series are Jean Baptiste Saurel’s Zorro, which consents audiences back to Los Angeles at the turn of the 19th century, and Lost Worlds With Bettany Hughes: The Nabateans, in which the English historian dives into the history of the Nabateans, an outdated Arab people.
Check out the filled lineups for the RSIFF’s New Vision and Series strands below.
Red Sea: New Vision
ALROSHAN, honested by Mohammed Ous
Saudi Arabia
A proset up dive into the extfinished history of the Roshan, the traditional carved wooden screens that shield Saudi thrivedows from the desert sun.
KEMOKAZI, honested by Abdulrahman Batawie
Saudi Arabia
Jeddah artist Kemokazi wrestles – sometimes literpartner – with his purpose as an artist.
OTHMAN IN THE VATICAN, honested by Yasir Bin Ghanem
Saudi Arabia
Internationpartner esteemed Saudi artist Othman Al-Khozaim mirrors on his lifeextfinished relationship with the conceiveive spirit of Italy.
WHEN THE LIGHT SHINES, honested by Ryan Al Bishri
Saudi Arabia
The enthusiasm and proset up understandledge of a Saudi prince – H. H. Prince Faisal bin Abuncleverah – drove the createation of the Layan Cultural Foundation, which upgrasps Saudi’s conceiveive history for the future.
YALLA PARKOUR, honested by Areeb Zuaiter
Sweden, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Areeb seeks a memory that backs her sense of beextfinisheding and greets Ahmad, a parkour athlete in Gaza. Their journey intertthrivees struggleing aspirations as nostalgia greets ambition, and the weight of her past disputes an uncertain future.
Red Sea: Series
GHOST TRAIN, honested by Se-Woong Tak
South Korea
A YouTube creator wanting more fancientiminishs seeks out gpresents in a Korean subway station filled with spooky stories.
LOST WORLDS WITH BETTANY HUGHES: THE NABATAEANS, honested by Jim Greayer
U.K., Saudi Arabia, Oman, Greece and Jordan
Starting in AlUla in Saudi Arabia, Bettany Hughes goes on a fascinating journey of refinding the history of the Nabateans.
TALES ON BANKS OF THE BOSPHORUS, honested by Zeina Sfeir, idea and research by Bissan Tay
Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey
Over fair 10 years, Turkish “telenovela” series have become a boom industry, send outed atraverse wonderful swathes of the world. What is the secret of this success?
ZORRO, honested by Jean Baptiste Saurel
Belgium, France
When he becomes the mayor of Los Angeles, Don Diego de la Vega has to convey back his alter ego Zorro to save the town. Starring Jean Dujardin.
