Discover the journey of Saudi Arabia's first Oscar submission, 'Hijra', a powerful tale of love, loss, and family secrets.

The Red Sea Film Festival is set to make cinema history for Saudi Arabia at its upcoming edition as it hosts the country's ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — “My Driver and I” was supposed to be made in 2016, but was scuttled amid Saudi Arabia’s decades-long cinema ban. Eight years later, the landscape for film in the kingdom ...

Building a country’s entire film industry from the ground up is no easy task. But in just eight short years, Saudi Arabia – which only began having cinemas across the kingdom in 2018 – has transformed ...

Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen's road movie "Hijra", which explores the bond between different generations of Saudi women on a journey across the desert, has been chosen as Saudi Arabia's entry for the ...

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Credit: Royal Court of Saudi Arabia/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Saudi Arabia’s predominant film investment firm, the Saudi Film Fund, has rebranded itself as the ...

Saudi Arabia has increased its private investment in state-backed film production. On Tuesday, during the Cultural Investment Conference 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia unveiled two new film investments ...

Saudi Arabia's Roula Dakheelallah and Sudan's Mustafa Shehata talked about the Saudi writer-director-actress' movie about a rebellious girl and her chauffeur at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah. By ...

Saudi comedy “Alzarfa: Escape from Hanhounia Hell” dominated the weekend box office frame in Saudi Arabia, beating global blockbusters “Jurassic World Rebirth” and “F1: The Movie.” The wacky heist ...

IN a surprising turn of events, a Saudi movie has been nominated for the Oscar award. Of course, in a country where there are no cinemas and where people travel to neighboring countries to watch ...

The Saudi Film Commission is in the midst of building a movie production complex called Jax Film Studios in capital Riyadh, the SFC announced at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. The complex will ...