'Sirāt' is a desert survival story — and one of the year's most gripping films

Sirāt tells the story of a man searching for his lost daughter at a rave in the Sahara Desert. Though it carries echoes of ...
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Inside Saudia Arabia's Big Cinema Swing ‘Desert Warrior,' The Delayed $150M Historical Epic Still Being Readied For Battle

Desert Warrior was unveiled in 2021 as a rallying cry for Saudi Arabian filmmaking. Starring Captain America's Anthony Mackie and Oscar-winner Sir Ben Kingsley, the $150M epic was set up by Riyadh ...
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The Desert Beyond: Emirati-made film to chart UAE's historic space journey

An Emirati-produced film is set to begin production to bring the UAE's history-making voyage into space to the big screen.The ...
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A Jinn Fantasy, Camels in the Desert and Funeral Home Temp Work: Arab Cinema at the Red Sea Film Festival

The third edition of the Saudia Arabia film festival offers a different look at new Arab cinema, from the fantastic and the political to the downright weird. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor ...

Robert Pattinson on Filming $715M Sci-Fi Sequel in “Relaxing” Desert Heat

Diane Ladd, the Oscar-nominated actor best known for her roles in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Wild At Heart ...

Robert Pattinson Says Filming ‘Dune 3’ Was ‘So Hot in the Desert’ That ‘My Brain Wasn’t Operating. I Did Not Have a Single Functioning Brain Cell’

Robert Pattinson recently told IndieWire that filming Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Three” was hotter than imagined. Similar ...