Four years after its launch, Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival has a lot to celebrate.
The ambitious event, which is Saudi’s first full-fledged film festival and market, has rapidly become the region’s main movie industry hub and films supported by its Red Sea Fund have fared nicely this year, with Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s “Four Daughters” scoring an Oscar nomination and Tawfik Alzaidi’s “Norah” becoming the first-ever Saudi film to play at the Cannes Film Festival.
Now the fest’s 2024 edition, which will run Dec. 5-14 in Jeddah, on the Red Sea’s eastern shore, is moving from the Ritz Carlton Hotel back to its original digs
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