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Arab News
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Arab News
Saudi-supported film to screen at Cannes parallel section ACID
DUBAI: ACID, a Cannes Film Festival parallel section, has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition, which includes the Red Sea Film Foundation-supported film 'Life After Siham' from Egyptian filmmaker Namir Abdel Messeeh. For the latest updates, follow us on Instagram @ The autobiographical hybrid-documentary – supported by Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Fund – follows the director as he grieves his mother's death while dealing with a creative impasse as he leads a writing workshop in Egypt. A post shared by Red Sea Film Foundation (@redseafilm) The film follows two parallel tracks, mixing family footage the director shot before and after his mother's passing against the fictional backdrop of a creative retreat set at the late Egyptian director Youssef Chahine's one-time residence. 'The film will also be a portrait of contemporary Egypt,' Messeeh told Variety in an earlier interview. 'Depicting a younger generation as they develop their own creative projects in post-revolution Egypt. Through them we'll explore different facets of the modern country.'
Arab News
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Arab News
Saudi-supported film ‘Dandelion's Odyssey' heads to Cannes Critics' Week
DUBAI: Cannes Critics' Week has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition, which includes the Red Sea Film Foundation-supported film 'Dandelion's Odyssey' from Momoko Seto. The film — which will close the week — will be the first animated feature to screen in the section since Jeremy Clapin's Grand Prize winner 'I Lost My Body' in 2019. A post shared by Red Sea Film Foundation (@redseafilm) Shot from Japan to Iceland, 'Dandelion's Odyssey' is an adventure set in a dystopian world, with plants and animals as the main characters. The feature features a mix of timelapse photography, as well as live-action shooting and 3D animation. More than 1,000 films were submitted for Cannes Critics' Week 2025, which runs from May 14 to 22.
