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65 articles available in total starting from 16/03/2005. Last article published on 24/05/2025.

Red Path and To a Land Unknown win big at the fourth Red Sea Film Festival

Red Path and To a Land Unknown win big at the fourth Red Sea Film Festival

Little Jaffna, Songs of Adam and My Driver and I have emerged as the other European feature-length co-productions that received accolades  

13/12/2024 | Red Sea 2024 | Awards

Shivani Pandya Malhotra • Managing director, Red Sea Film Foundation

Interview: Shivani Pandya Malhotra • Managing director, Red Sea Film Foundation

“My proudest achievement this year is that out of the 16 films in the competition, we've got six made by women”

During our chat, we zoomed in on the collaboration between Europe and the Arab region, and how the Red Sea Film Foundation supports female filmmakers  

10/12/2024 | Red Sea 2024 | Red Sea Souk

Ryan Ashore • Head, Red Sea Labs

Interview: Ryan Ashore • Head, Red Sea Labs

“We have a huge number of European producers and industry experts coming in throughout the year”

We sat down with the head honcho of the Red Sea Labs in order to gain an insight into what has changed this year and get an overview of some of its success stories  

04/12/2024 | Red Sea 2024 | Red Sea Souk

The Red Sea Souk gears up to present 38 projects

The Red Sea Souk gears up to present 38 projects

The industry sidebar of the Red Sea International Film Festival, unspooling from 7-11 December, will feature both film and episodic projects  

03/12/2024 | Red Sea 2024 | Red Sea Souk

The fourth Red Sea International Film Festival finalises its full programme line-up

The fourth Red Sea International Film Festival finalises its full programme line-up

Running from 5-14 December, the Saudi event taking place in Jeddah boasts 16 films in its competition line-up, a breadth of Saudi flicks and a multitude of critics’ darlings from around the world  

29/11/2024 | Red Sea 2024

Rashid Masharawi • Director of Passing Dreams

Interview: Rashid Masharawi • Director of Passing Dreams

“Palestinians find themselves in absurd or ironic situations, and I think that laughing about it is also a form of resistance”

The established filmmaker speaks about his bittersweet road movie centred on a boy who stubbornly follows a carrier pigeon across Palestine, believing it has returned home  

15/11/2024 | Cairo 2024

Review: Front Row

Review: Front Row

Prolific Algerian filmmaker Merzak Allouache's 19th feature is a social issues comedy full of awkward moments and centred around two rival families at the beach  

16/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

Review: Aïcha

Review: Aïcha

VENICE 2024: Tunisian director Mehdi Barsaoui’s thriller follows a young woman who bravely seeks a new identity after surviving a bus crash  

09/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Ala Eddine Slim • Director of Agora

Interview: Ala Eddine Slim • Director of Agora

“I think the world is divided into two categories: the oppressors and the oppressed”

With his third feature, the Tunisian director expands on the political themes of liberation and resistance through animal dreams  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Agora

Review: Agora

Ala Eddine Slim’s film merges auteur thriller with fable to explore socio-political unrest in Tunisia through the mysterious return of the dead  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

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