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Red Sea Film Festival Announces 2025 Programming Team
The Red Sea Film Foundation, which supports movies, announced the people who will pick the films for their big movie festival in 2025!
This announcement happened while some of the movies the Foundation helped make were being shown at the Venice Film Festival.
The team includes people from different countries with lots of experience in movies.
The festival, where they'll show all the movies, will be in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in December of 2025.
The team will choose what movies to show at the festival.
The Red Sea Film Foundation announced the programming team for the 2025 Red Sea International Film Festival.
The announcement coincides with the Venice Film Festival, where the Foundation is supporting several film premieres.
Fionnuala Halligan, Director of International Programs, assembled the new programming team.
The team includes Mike Goodridge, Giovanna Fulvi, Deepti D’Cunha, and Alex Moussa Sawadogo.
The festival will take place in Al Balad, Jeddah, from December 4–13, 2025.
- Who
- The Red Sea Film Foundation and its new programming team.
- What
- The announcement of the programming team for the 2025 Red Sea International Film Festival.
- Where
- Al Balad, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
- When
- The announcement was made before the Venice Film Festival and for the 2025 festival taking place December 4-13, 2025.
- Why
- To prepare for the upcoming Red Sea International Film Festival and curate the films to be shown.
Key facts
- Event
- Red Sea International Film Festival
- Location
- Al Balad, Jeddah
- Date
- December 4–13, 2025
- Director of International Programs
- Fionnuala Halligan
- International Program Advisor
- Mike Goodridge
Quotes
Shivani Pandya-Malhotra
Managing Director of the Red Sea Film Foundation
“Our programming teams are the backbone of our festival – tirelessly weaving together the works we screen and shaping the artistic direction of each edition.”
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“It is invigorating to be creating our fifth RSIFF in collaboration with a host of talented, deeply connected and curatorially driven programmers – and we look forward to sharing the fruits of their work with our local and international audiences this December.”
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