The Red Sea International Film Festival Support Fund has announced 36 selected projects.

178 films applied to benefit from the support fund.

The list of Arab projects selected for production is the following:

  • "Aicha" by Mehdi M. Barsaoui (Tunisia/France/Saudi Arabia)
  • "Thank You For Baking With Us!" by Laila Abbas (Palestine)
  • "Big Boys Don't Cry" by Muhammad Mustapha (Egypt/Germany)
  • "Seeking Haven For Mr Rambo" by Khaled Mansour (Egypt)
  • "Mime" by Kaouther Ben Hania (France/Tunisia)
  • "Hounds" by Kamal Lazraq (Morocco)
  • "Amina" by Nora El Hourch (Morocco)
  • "The Vanishing" by Karim Moussaoui (Algeria)
  • "Yunan" by Ameer Fakher Eldin (Germany/Saudi Arabia/Palestine/France/Italy)
  • "Fifty Meters" by Yomna Khattab (Egypt)
  • "The Walled Off Hotel VR Experience" by Amer Shomali (Palestine/Germany/Netherlands)
  • "She Was Not Alone" by Hussein Al-Asadi (Iraq)
  • "Men In The Sun" by Mahdi Fleifel (UK/Greece/Netherlands/Palestine/Denmark)
  • "The 67th Summer" by Abu Bakr Shawky (Egypt/France/Austria)
  • "Habibi and I In Eden" by Sara Mesfer (Saudi Arabia/Qatar)
  • "Miss Camel" by Haifaa Al Mansour (Saudi Arabia)
  • "Al-Daar" by Abdullah Bamajboor (Saudi Arabia)
  • "All That's Left of You" by Cherien Dabis (Germany/Palestine/AU/Egypt/Qatar/Cyprus/Saudi Arabia)
  • "All Before You" by Annemarie Jacir (Saudi Arabia/Palestine/UK)

The list of Arab projects selected for post-production is the following:

  • "Norah" by Tawfik Alzaidi (Saudi Arabia)
  • "Blacklight" by Karim Bensalah (Algeria/France)
  • "Backstage" by Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane (Morocco/Tunisia/Belgium/France)
  • "Spring Came On Laughing" by Noha Adel (Egypt)
  • "Hackers of Borders" by Mohamed Ismail Louati (Tunisia/France/Germany/Lebanon)
  • "Concrete Land" by Asmahan Bkerat (Jordan)
  • "Land of Women" by Ayman El Amir and Nada Riyadh (Egypt/France/Denmark/Qatar)
  • "Thiiird" by Karim Kassem (Lebanon)
  • "A City Below Zero" by Medoo Ali (Iraq)
  • "A Fidai Film" by Kamal Aljafari (Palestine/Germany)
  • "Floating In A Vacuum" by Mohamed Ben Attia (Tunisia)