Upcoming films from Cannes doc awards winner Asmae El Moudir, Saudi Arabian filmmaker and actor Fatima Al-Banawi, and rising Nigerian filmmaker C.J.
Obasi are among 38 feature projects due to be presented at the Red Sea Souk Project Market this year. The meeting will unfold within the framework of the fourth Red Sea International Film Festival, running in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah from December 5 to 14.
Like the festival, it will return to its original setting of the city’s historic Al Balad quarter after two years in the Ritz Carlton hotel, while a new HQ was being built.
The 12 in-development projects include Al-Banawi’s Do Re Mimi, her second feature in the director’s chair after Basma, which debuted on Netflix this year.
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