Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF, December 1-10) has unveiled its International and Arab Spectacular programmes.
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Among the nine-strong international selection is Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
Guadagnino’s cannibal romance starring Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell had its world premiere at Venice where it won best director and best young actor for Russell.
Pinocchio, co-directed by Mark Gustafson, world premiered at BFI London Film Festival last month and will be released globally by Netflix in December.
Other International Spectacular titles include Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Inisherin; Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle Of Sadness; Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave and Sam Mendes’ Empire Of Light.
The Arab programme is made up of six previously announced films from the festival including Venice’s Queens from Moroccan filmmaker Yasmine Benkiran and the world premiere of Valley Road from Saudi writer/director Khaled Fahd, which will close the festival.
This is the second edition of RSIFF and will take place in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah.
International Spectacular
The Banshees Of Inisherin (Ire-UK-US)
Dir. Martin McDonagh
Bones And All (US)
Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Broker (S Kor)
Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Decision To Leave (S Kor)
Dir. Park Chan-wook
Empire Of Light (UK-US)
Dir. Sam Mendes
Hunt (S Kor)
Dir. Lee Jung-jae
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (US)
Dirs. Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson
Rebel (Bel)
Dirs. Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah
Triangle Of Sadness (Swe-Ger-Fr-UK)
Dir. Ruben Ostlund
What’s Love Got To Do With It? (UK-Fr)
Dir. Shekhar Kapur
Arab Spectacular
Alkhallat+ (Saudi)
Dir. Fahad Alammari
All Roads Lead To Rome (Leb)
Dir. Lara Saba
How I Got Here (Saudi-Kawait)
Dir. Zeyad Alhusaini
Kamala (Egy)
Dir. John Ikram Sawers
Queens (Mor)
Dir. Yasmine Benkiran
Valley Road (Saudi)
Dir. Khaled Fahd
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