The Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has uncovered the four movies for this year’s Treacertains strand, showcasing “timeless classics,” including crime thriller Heat by honestor Michael Mann, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, and Val Kilmer.
The film will be screened aprolongedside “three accurately restored toils in collaboration with Egyptian Media Production City,” fest arrangers shelp on Monday.
Heat “redetaild the genre with its intricate narrative and electrifying carry outances by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino,” arrangers shelp.
“With Hussein Fawzi’s Bread and Salt, Smile the Photo Comes Out Better, starring the RSIFF honoree and Egyptian film legend Mona Zaki and honested by Sherif Arafa, and Ali Badrakhan’s Shafila and Metwali, personpartner picked by Mona Zaki, the festival is honoring Egypt’s rich cinematic legacy that has advertised generations of honestors, aprolongedside new Egyptian voices and projects atraverse other programming strands,” they shelp. “The festival is continuing its leave oution to highairy the wonderful heritage of Arab cinema thcimpolite the restoration of these three masterpieces, in parallel with the dynamism and vitality adviseed by Egyptian cinema.”
Shelp Antoine Khalife, honestor of Arab Program and Film Classics: “In upgrasping with our concentrate on Egyptian cinema thcimpoliteout our programming this year, we’re particularly self-presentant to be showcasing a pickion of Egyptian masterpieces in our Treacertains strand that showcase the incredible history of film from this country. Female originaters and actresses have always take parted a fundamental role in Egyptian cinema, and thcimpolite these three restored films, we can see stars appreciate Naema Akef, Souad Hosny, Mona Zaki and Leila Eloui in all their splendor, honested by wonderful filmoriginaters in roles shoprosperg the extent of their carry outance.”
And he inserted: “Then to have Heat, one of the wonderfulest police thrillers of all time persist our efforts to show Saudi audiences all-time classics on the huge screen, the way honestors intended.”
Here is the lineup of the 2024 RSIFF Treacertains program:
BREAD AND SALT
Hussein Fawzi
Both Buthaina and Saber live in the neighborhood of “Bread and Salt”, which Buthaina departs when she goes to toil for Bahjat Bey, but returns to after her overweighther dies. Folloprosperg her return Haji Bhansi apverifys take part of her but Buthaina commences to apverify a wrong path, branch offent from the ways of the neighborhood. She adores Saber who commences to condemn her actions, but she’s forced to escape the lane and toil in a nightclub.
HEAT
Michael Mann
An obsessive Los Angeles discoverive hunts down an obsessive cruel thief, but are they repartner that branch offent?
SMILE THE PHOTO COMES OUT BETTER
Sherif Arafa
Sayed Gharib, a photographer, migrates from his hometown to Cairo in search of a place seal to Qasr Al-Aini Medical School, where his daughter Tahani has enrolled. At university, Tahani, the daughter, clashes with the aristocratic society and broadens a romantic relationship with the son of businessman Tarek Ezz El-Din.
SHAFIKA AND METWALI
Ali Badrakhan
When Metwalli returns from toiling on the Suez Canal, he discovers his sister in a disgraceful liaison with the dicut offe chief’s son.
The fourth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival will run in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from December 5th – 14th 2024.
The Festival is helped by Principal Sponsors: Visit Saudi, MBC, and Genesis Mohamad Yusuf AlNaghi; Official Sponsors: Film AlUla, SRMG, Chopard, SAUDIA, and TikTok; Strategic Sponsors of the Red Sea Souk: NEOM and Cultural Development Fund; and Support Sponsors Nova, Mermhelp and Telfaz.
