In 2021, Sharlto Copley (“District 9,” “The Witcher”) and Aiysha Hart (“Mogul Mowgli,” “Colette”) spent five months in a scenic desert area near the site of the futuristic city of NEOM...
Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen’s road movie “Hijra,” about the bond formed between different generations of Saudi women during a journey across the desert, delves deep into the country’s multi-cultural DNA, intending...
Saudi Arabia is launching a sprawling new state-of-the-art film studio just outside the capital city of Riyadh where pre-production is underway on an ambitious historical epic titled “Unbroken Sword,” directed by...
Annemarie Jacir‘s drama “Palestine 36,” which reconstructs the largely unknown Palestinian revolt against British colonial rule in 1936, is the very definition of a passion project for the director who has...
British-Egyptian actor Amir El-Masry, who plays iconic British-Yemeni featherweight “Prince” Naseem Hamed in the biopic “Giant” – which opens Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival – is on a roll with...
After Al Jazeera and the 2022 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament put Qatar on the global map, the tiny Arab state rich in oil and gas is now turning to film...
Iceland’s prominent production banner Glassriver has partnered with Italian sales company True Colours on a new Nordic psychological thriller series titled “Brkn,” about an investigation into the disappearance of a nonbinary...
Netflix‘s new Italian original “The Monster of Florence” is making a killing, hitting the No. 1 spot globally on the streaming giant. The serial killer series, directed by genre specialist Stefano...
