The Crimson Sea Worldwide Movie Competition has unveiled the majority of the line-up for its fourth version, which is able to showcase 120 movies from 81 territories from December 5 to 14 within the port metropolis of Jeddah.
The pageant will open with Egyptian director Karim Shenawy’s The Story Of Daye’s Household (aka Gentle) about an 11-year-old Nubian albino boy with a phenomenal voice, who faces adversity as a result of his distinctive look.
Deserted by his father and bullied by his friends, he desires of following within the footsteps of his idol, singer and actor Mohamed Mounir. When he will get an opportunity to audition for The Voice, Daye and his household embark on a deadly 1,000-mile journey from Southern Egypt to Cairo.
Michael Gracey’s semi-biographical characteristic Higher Man, impressed by Robbie Williams and portraying the pop icon as a chimpanzee, will shut the pageant.
Johnny Depp’s Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Insanity – which was supported by the pageant’s dad or mum physique the Crimson Sea Movie Basis – and employed members of its apprenticeship program as crew, can even display in a particular awards evening gala.
Star energy can even be assured on the pink carpet by this 12 months’s Crimson Sea honorees: Academy Award profitable actress and producer Viola Davis (The Lady King, Fences) and Egyptian famous person Mona Zaki, whose latest credit embrace Flight 404, which is Egypt’s Oscar entry this 12 months.
Other than being honored, Davis can even be on the pageant because the co-founder of JVL Media, the full-service manufacturing/media packaging agency and publishing home she co-founded with Julius Tennon and Lavaille Lavette. Some 75 corporations hailing from 18 totally different corporations are taking stands on the market this 12 months.
The corporate will attend the pageant’s Souk market and have within the business talks programming – exploring storytelling traits and funding within the area and past. The pageant revealed that this 12 months this system is being put collectively in collaboration with CAA Media Finance for the primary time.
Starry titles set for Gala screenings embrace Peter Chelsom’s A Sudden Case Of Christmas, with its star Danny Devito anticipated to hit the pink carpet in Jeddah, Pablo Larrain’s biopic Maria, starring Angelina Jolie as iconic tragic opera singer Maria Callas; Mehdi Idir’s Monsieur Aznavour, starring Tahar Rahim because the French crooner; and Thierry Teston and Lisa Azeulos’ Jane Fonda-narrated doc My Method, and We Stay In Time with Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, and Anderson .Paak’s primarily South Korea-set musical movie Okay-Pops!, which shot partly in Saudi Arabia‘s world heritage website area of AlULa. .
The pageant has but to unveil what expertise can be in attendance but it surely set a excessive bar for starry pink carpets in its first three editions. The jury and its high-profile In Conversations strand have additionally but to be unveiled.
The principle competitors will characteristic 15 titles from the Center East, Africa and Asia.
Plenty of titles, which have already created buzz on the pageant circuit, may have their MENA premieres resembling Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel’s To A Land Unknown, which debuted at Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight; Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat’s Sima’s Track, exploring the evolution of ladies’s rights through the Russian occupation of Afghanistan within the Seventies, and Indian director Reema Kagti’s comedy Superboys of Malegaon, primarily based on the true story of a bunch of beginner filmmakers who got here collectively to create a movie that honors their metropolis, and Iraqi-Austrian filmmaker Kurdwin Ayub’s Moon.
This 12 months will see the pageant return to Jeddah’s historic Al Balad district, after two editions on the Ritz-Carlton whereas the headquarters for its dad or mum physique the Crimson Sea Movie Basis have been being constructed. The pageant’s unveiled its promotional video for this version, shot in opposition to the backdrop of the gentrified Al Balad quarter to provide a style of what members and spectators can anticipate.
2024 Line-up TITLE/director
Crimson Sea: Competitors
SUPERBOYS OF MALEGAON
Reema Kagti
HANAMI
Denise Fernandes
TO A LAND UNKNOWN
Mahdi Fleifel
MOON
Kurdwin Ayub
SONGS OF ADAM
Oday Rasheed
RED PATH
Lotfi Achour
SNOW WHITE
Taghrid Abouelhassan
BIN U BIN, BORDER ELSEWHERE
Mohamed Lakhdar Tati
SAIFY
Wael Abumansour
AÏCHA
Mehdi M. Barsaoui
SEEKING HAVEN FOR MR RAMBO
Khaled Mansour
SIMA’S SONG
Roya Sadat
6 IN THE MORNING
Mehran Modiri
TO KILL A MONGOLIAN HORSE
Xiaoxuan Jiang
SABA
Maksud Hossain
Crimson Sea: Households & Youngsters:
NIGHT OF THE ZOOPOCALYPSE
Ricardo Curtis, Rodrigo Perez-Castro
PANDA BEAR IN AFRICA
Richard Claus, Karsten Kiilerich
SUKKAR: SABAABAA W HOUBOUB AL KHARZIZ
Tamer Mahdy
Arab Spectacular Particular Screenings (Introduced Nov 5)
ABDO & SANEYA
Omar Bakry
FRONT ROW
Merzak Allouache
HOBAL
Abdulaziz Alshlahei
LAIL NAHAR
MY DRIVER AND I
Ahd Kamel
Crimson Sea: New Imaginative and prescient (introduced Oct 30)
ALROSHAN
Mohammed Ous
KEMOKAZI
Abdulrahman Batawie
OTHMAN IN THE VATICAN
Yasir Bin Ghanem
WHEN THE LIGHT SHINES
Ryan Al Bishri
YALLA PARKOUR
Areeb Zuaiter
Crimson Sea: Sequence (introduced Oct 30)
GHOST TRAIN
Se-Woong Tak
LOST WORLDS WITH BETTANY HUGHES: THE NABATAEANS
Jim Greayer
TALES ON BANKS OF THE BOSPHORUS
Zeina Sfeir
ZORRO
Jean Baptiste Saurel
Crimson Sea: Shorts Competitors – Arab Choice:
FRAGMENTS OF LIFE
Anis Ben Dali
SAINT ROSE
Zayn Alexandre
THE SIGNAL
Nasser Alqattan
SHAMS
Adam Rayan
CHIKHA
Ayoub Layoussifi and Zahoua Raji
AFRICAN FAMILY DINNER
Ibrahim Mursal
IN THREE LAYERS OF DARKNESS
Houcem Slouli
CHILDREN OF BARZAGH
Ahmed Khattab
MERA, MERA, MERA
Khaled Zidan
MALIKA
Maram Taibah
LAND OF GOD
Imad Benomar
NEMSHI?
Assaf Al Rousan
FIZR
Rani Nasr
ZAHRA
Hadi Shatat
ONE LAST TIME
Karim Rahbani
Crimson Sea: Shorts Competitors – Worldwide Choice (Introduced Oct 18)
ACROSS THE WATER
Viv Li
ALAZAR
Beza Hailu Lemma
HATCH
Alireza Kazemipour and Panta Mosleh
LAI LEI
Binglin Cui
LUNGE
Negar Hassanzadeh
NAILS
Triparna Banerjee
NEVER HAVE I EVER
Joyce A. Nashawati
PIE DAN LO
Kim Yip Tong
RADIKALS
Arvin Belarmino
SANKI YOXSAN
Azer Guliev
UREFU WE KAMBA
Mageto Ndege
WASHHH
Mickey Lai
New Saudi, New Cinema Choice:
A MOSQUITO
Raneem Almohandes and Dana Almohandes
THE POST
Zakaria Albashir
THE DREAMER DREAMS
Abdulmohsen Albinali
UNDERGROUND
Abdulrahman Sandokji
PAVLOV’S BELLS
Khalid Fahad
KHAMSEN
Abdullah Alrowis
TWO SISTERS
Waleed Alqahtani
TIED
Yam Fida
WHERE’S THE IMAM?
Abrar Qari
WHEN THE SHELVES HYMN
Hanaa Saleh Alfassi
ASEER MEMORY
Saad Tahaitah
DIAA SHAMSI
Lama Jarkas
SUGAR
Khalid Bin Waleed
THE EXTRAORDINARY MISADVENTURES OF THE AMAZING BOY SUPER-BLURRY
Hassan El Hejaili
SAEED’S DAY
Mohammed Zawari
GUM
Belal Albader
THE EDGE (ORA)
Ahmed Alqithmi
THE CERTAINTY
Ahmad Kurdi
DOES IT HURT TOO BAD TO LOOK AT ME?
Rana Matar
Winners of the fourth version of the 48 hours problem:
ALL IN ONE NIGHT (AION)
Thoraya Akram
AFEN
Nawaf Alkinani and Othman Al Khowiter
