The cinema of Saudi Arabia is a fairly small industry that produces only a few films and documentaries every year.
With the exception of one IMAX theater in Khobar by Khalid, there is no cinema in Saudi Arabia from 1983 to 2018, though there are occasional talks about opening theaters, and in 2008 the conference room was hired to show the comedy . Saudis who want to watch a movie have done it via satellite, DVD, or video. The cinema has been banned for 35 years until the first cinema in Saudi Arabia opened on April 18, 2018 in Riyadh. The AMC theater plans to open up to 40 theaters in 15 Saudi cities over the next five years.
Keif al-Hal? , released in 2006, billed as Saudi Arabia's first film; However, it was shot in the United Arab Emirates and lead women were played by a Jordanian. The 2012 film Wadjda has an all-Saudi cast and is the first film to be filmed entirely in Saudi Arabia. Movie Barakah Yoqabil Barakah by director Mahmoud Sabbagh shot in Jeddah in 2015, aired 66 Berlin International Film Festival , making it the first feature film to participate in festival. Sameera Aziz is the first Saudi filmmaker in the world-renowned Bollywood cinema.
Saudi cinema, whether locally produced or sourced from abroad, is subject to a rigorous Saudi censorship.
Video Cinema of Saudi Arabia
Film
Keif al-Hal? sparked a debate about state stance in cinemas and movies. The short documentary film directed by Abdullah Al-Eyaf titled Cinema 500Ã, km discusses the problem of cinema and movie bans forcing the media to raise issues and discuss them. Wadjda was selected as the Saudi Arabian entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards - the first time the country submitted an Oscar - but not nominated. It earned a nomination for Best Foreign Film at the 2014 BAFTA Awards.
Baroque Yoqabil Bar is the first feature film from Saudi Arabia to participate in the Berlin International Film Festival ; it won the jury award at the festival.
Maps Cinema of Saudi Arabia
Movies
In the 1970s, there were many cinemas in Saudi Arabia and they were not considered un-Islamic, although they were seen to be contrary to Arab cultural norms.
In the 1980s, there were several movie theaters in Saudi Arabia, most of them in Jeddah and Mecca, where Egyptian, Indian and Turkish films were screened without government interference. However, all of this space was closed due to increasing conservative religious objections during the Islamic revival movement in the 1980s. As a political response to the increase of Islamist activism, including the seizure of the 1979 Masjidil Haram in Mecca, the government closed down all theaters and theaters.
During the cinema ban, the only public theater in Saudi Arabia is a single IMAX cinema located in Khobar at the Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Science and Technology Center. IMAX theaters, operating since 2005, show only educational films. Most production documentaries from the United States are featured in Arabic, with English audio headphones available.
In November 2005, a 1,400-seat movie theater was opened at a hotel in Riyadh for limited travel. The cinema is open to women and children only and shows a foreign cartoon dubbed in Arabic. After public screening, the ban on cinemas was questioned as cinema demand in Saudi Arabia increased.
On December 11, 2017, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Culture and Information announces that public cinemas will be allowed by 2018. The government hopes that by 2030, Saudi Arabia will have more than 300 cinemas with over 2,000 movie screens. The first public film screening is Black Panther which begins on April 18, 2018 for five days in a 620-seat cinema owned by the AMC Theater in King Abdullah Financial District Riyadh which was originally intended to be a symphony hall. Avengers: Infinity War began screening in the kingdom on April 26th. In May 2018, it was announced that IMAX had signed an agreement with VOX Cinemas to open at least four IMAX venues following the lifting of the cinema ban. At that time, it was announced that VOX Cinemas intends to open 600 screens across Saudi Arabia over the next five years.
Video rental store
Video rental shops began to appear in the 1980s and offered Arabic, Western and Asian movies. In the late 1990s, the growing number of free-to-air satellite TV channels caused most video stores to shut down.
Saudi movie
A small number of films have been taken in Saudi Arabia with Saudi casts. However, due to lack of cinema in Saudi Arabia, they have not been shown in Saudi Arabia. Famous Saudi films include:
- Will Meet Them (2017)
- Dhilal al Sammt ( Shadow of Silence ; 2004)
- Theaters 500 km (2006)
- Keif al-Hal? (2006)
- Unwanted Women ( Nisaa Bil Thil ; 2006)
- I Don 'Wanna (2008)
- Shadows (2008)
- Three Men and Women (2008)
- By Local Time (2008)
- Sunrise/Sunset (2008)
- Last Day (2008)
- Project (2008)
- Wadjda (2013)
- Barakah Yoqabil Barakah (2016)
Movies taken in Saudi Arabia
- Isolation Family Films (Austria; 2006)
- Le Grand Voyage (France; 2004) - partially filmed in Mecca
- Malcolm X (America; 1992) - the first documentary film filed for filming in Mecca
- Le Schiave Esistono Ancora (Italy; 1964)
- Wadjda (Saudi-Germany; 2013)
- Barakah Yoqabil Barakah (Saudi; 2016)
- Hologram for Kings (English; 2016)
- Gaddama (Malayalam; 2011)
Saudi director
- Abdullah Al-Muheisen
- Mohammad Makki
- Abdullah Al-Eyaf
- Haifaa al-Mansour
- Yousef Linjawi
- Mohammad Aldhahri
- Mohammad Al Khalif
- Abdulmuhsin Almutairi
- Hussam Alhulwah
- Mohammed Alhamoud
- Abdulmohsen Al-Dhabaan
- Nawaf Almuhanna
- Mohammed Salman
- Mohammed Albash
- Mosa Althounian
- Mohana Abdullah
- Mahmoud Sabbagh
- Teeth Hozimah
- Abdulmuhsen Alquseer
- Sameera Aziz
Saudi actor
- Hisham Fageeh
- Ahel Kamel
- Fatima Al-Banawi
- Hind Muhammad
- Hisham Abdulrahman
- Abdullah Al-Sarhan
- Nasir Al-Gasabi
- Habib Al-Habib
- Yusof Al-Jarrah
- Mohammed Baksh
- Mushari Hilal
- Reem Abdullah
- Ahmed Khalil
Reference
Also see
- Censorship in Saudi Arabia
- World cinema
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