Jeddah’s Red Sea Film Fest reveals films in Shorts Competition 

The festival will take place in Jeddah from Nov. 30 to Dec. 9. (Instagram)
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Updated 28 November 2023
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Jeddah’s Red Sea Film Fest reveals films in Shorts Competition 

DUBAI: Jeddah’s Red Sea International Film Festival unveiled the movies competing in the Red Sea: Shorts Competition at the festival’s third edition.  

“The program features a variety of shorts ranging from narrative and documentary to animated, all sharing an incredible sense of narrative economy,” the festival wrote on Instagram.  

 

 

Featuring entries from Pakistan, Singapore, Kazakhstan and Senegal, the competition will serve as a platform for 14 emerging and established filmmakers whose submissions fit the theme “Your Story Your Festival.”  

The titles are Farnoosh Samadi’s “Titanic, Primetime Mother,” “The Late Wind” by Shugyla Serzhan, “The Wait” by Imran Hamdulay, “Solatia” by Hira Yousafzai, “Yaa” by Amartei Armar, “Dusk” by Awa Moctar Gueye, “The Courier” by Tigran Agavelyan, “Suitcase” by Saman Hosseinpuor and Ako Zandkarimi, Kantarama Gahigiri’s “Terra Mater – Motherland,” “Eid Mubarak” by Mahnoor Euceph, Ethar Baamer’s “In Between, Accidentally Intentional” and “The Suitcase” by Numan Acar. 

 

 

By showcasing their work at the festival, the filmmakers will be making their regional and world premieres.  

The festival will take place in Jeddah from Nov. 30 to Dec. 9.  


Tunisian filmmaker wins $1 million AI Film Award

Updated 11 January 2026
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Tunisian filmmaker wins $1 million AI Film Award

DUBAI: The $1 million AI Film Award was given to Tunisian filmmaker Zoubeir Jlassi for his film “Lily” during the fourth edition of the 1 Billion Followers Summit in Dubai.

The prize was awarded by Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, chairperson of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority.

The prize was awarded by Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, chairperson of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. (Supplied)

The award, organized by the summit in partnership with Google Gemini, was presented as part of the gathering that focuses on the content creation economy. The event, that ran from Jan. 9–11, brought together more than 15,000 content creators and influencers, alongside over 580 speakers and 150 CEOs under the theme “Content for Good.”

The AI Film Award received 3,500 film submissions. Entries underwent technical evaluation with Google Gemini to ensure at least 70 percent of the production used generative AI tools.

Following jury selection and public voting, “Lily” emerged as the winner from a final group of five nominees, which included “Portrait No. 72,” “Cats Like Warmth,” “HEAL,” and “The Translator.”