The 2026 theme, “Cinema of the Journey,” centres on transformation through movement — physical or emotional. The line-up will include Arab and international short and feature-length films in which ...

When Saudi Arabia’s Cultural Development Fund gathered filmmakers, producers, investors and entrepreneurs at its Film Future reception during the Red Sea Film Festival, the goal was not simply to ...

The Saudi Film Festival is set to return this April, with organizers announcing that the highly anticipated event will take ...

Saudi creative studio Telfaz11 and music platform MDLBEAST unveiled a strategic partnership on the fringes of the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah on Monday. The agreement unites two of the hippest ...

In just five years, Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival has gone from an ambitious start-up to an established stop on the global festival circuit — and few people have had a closer view ...

Asharq Al Awsat The Film Commission took part in the 76th Berlin International Film Festival, held from February 12 to 22, to showcase its key achievements in advancing the Saudi film sector and ...

As RSIFF marks its fifth edition, the event's founding MD discusses structural change in the Saudi film industry, the huge Hollywood contingent participating in 2025, and why she’s unfazed by U.S.