Alternative Film Guide

Reuters (via /The Scotsman) reports that Saudi Arabia’s first film festival, the Jeddah Visual Show Festival, is currently taking place. According to Andrew Hammond’s article, no features are being screened, but the Saudi shorts shown at the festival "deal with bold themes such as domestic violence, drugs and religious extremism. Saudi television carries some dramas covering the same issues, but they are mostly made in Kuwait with Kuwaiti actors."

Note: The words "cinema" or "film" were not allowed in the festival’s title, for fear of invoking the wrath of Saudi Arabia’s ultra-radical Muslim clerics. Films have been banned from the Muslim kingdom since the 1970s.

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