The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture “Ithra” and the Cinema Society Tomorrow are launching the eighth Saudi Film Festival, with the support of the Film Commission of the Ministry of Culture, and with the participation of local, Gulf and international filmmakers and actors, at the Ithra theater in Dhahran.
The festival’s activities, which will last for eight days, include a screening of 80 films in four tracks, where 28 films will compete in the short films competition, while eight films will compete in the long films competition, along with 44 parallel shows, and 12 of them fall under the category of poetic cinema.
On the sidelines of the events, five training workshops will be held in directing, acting, production, distribution and soundtracks, and nine seminars on film screenings, the production of feature films in Saudi cinema, the concept of Saudi film, cinema poetry and its aesthetics, as well as a “Master Class” seminar on legal dealings in global broadcasting platforms. number of characters.
The seminars are scheduled to start next Saturday under the title “The Saudi Novel in Cinema”, the second seminar on Sunday “The Concept of Saudi Film”, and the third seminar on Monday titled “The Poetry of Cinema and Its Aesthetics”, and the festival will conclude its seminars on Tuesday with “legal dealings with global broadcasting platforms.”
The festival will open this year with the movie “Old Phone Number” written and directed by Ali Saeed, starring Yaqoub Al-Farhan. The film won the award for the best short film script in the script lab held by the festival in the previous session.
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