Sea Armstrong didn’t need anyone’s permission to find an audience of movie lovers. On the rooftop of the MLK Library in Washington, D.C., on a Saturday in September, with the capital city under ...

Baltyuor opens up about the central role the Red Sea International Film Festival has in the country's drive to become a global production hub. By Abid Rahman International Editor, Digital But wait, ...

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.

Jordanian filmmaker Zain Duraie arrives at this year’s Red Sea Film Festival with her first feature “Sink” (“Gharaq”), a deeply personal drama screening in competition. The film, which traces a mother ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — “My Driver and I” was supposed to be made in 2016, but was scuttled amid Saudi Arabia's decades-long cinema ban. Eight years later, the landscape for film in the kingdom looks ...

Veteran journalist and programmer Fionnuala Halligan has been hired as the Red Sea Film Festival’s Director of International Programmes. Halligan replaces Kaleem Aftab, who stepped down late last year ...

Deadline Studio at the Red Sea International Film Festival 2025 will host talent from December 4 – December 8 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Attendees who had their portraits taken at the studio were Sean ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The fifth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival, one of the Middle East’s largest film festivals, opened Thursday in the coastal city of Jeddah, marking a ...

After more than three decades as a dogged movie reviewer, most recently as chief critic for the U.K.'s Screen International, Fionnuala Halligan stepped inside the film festival machinery earlier this ...