Oliver Stone will preside over the main competition jury of the second edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival, honoring a promise to attend in that role dating back to 2020.
The Academy Award-winning Born On The Fourth Of July and Natural Born Killers director was previously announced as jury president for the festival’s inaugural 2020 edition, which was postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The festival, running December 1 to 10 in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, unveiled most of the line-up for its sophomore edition on Monday As of now, the event will showcase 131 feature-length and short films from 61 countries in total, 34 of them world premieres; 17, regional premieres, and 47, MENA premieres.
The main competition focused on works by Arab, African and Asian directors, will showcase 15 films, with potential additions to come.
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