Between the drama, philosophical depth and magical realism, the work of 12 Saudi filmmakers will be hosted by the Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth, organized by the Art Foundation, from October 13 to 18, and the audience will be on a date with cinematic creations revealing Gulf cinema. Sophisticated, heralds a rich future for this Arab art. Over half an hour, five minutes, or even hours, there are intense and short scenes of movies that tell stories of a different genre. There is a rich entanglement that the 7th edition of this year's event is keen to present through the work of 12 Saudi filmmakers. Through their diverse films, they introduced the culture and privacy of their society.
«Memories of Mara»
With his superstitious creatures and silence, the film “Memories of Mara” by Saudi director Wad Al-Hajjaji tells the story of the fictional character “Mara” who suffers from psychological disturbances and struggles to get rid of the memories of her past. Dimensions, to keep the questions open even after the end of the film, and on top of them: What will happen to man if he stuck in his black memory?
«Saadia Sabet Sultan»
We may exaggerate if we use the term "collapse" to express the end of a relationship between two people, but in fact this is the only one that expresses this separation, accompanied by dispersion and confusion, and Alojom, disappointment, and wait. All these words intensify in one single, to form the essence of the film director Jawaher al-Amiri, entitled «Saadia Sabet Sultan», which tells the story of «Sultan», a doctor who seeks to meet his daughter after the collapse of his relationship with his wife, and when he discovered in the home puppet "Saadia", decides to share life with them, but soon happens something that ends all of this, what happened to Sultan? What about Sadia?
"I am the death"
What does the Saudi director Yasser Adly want in his film “I am Death”? Do you raise the issue of suicide? Or wants us to know the impact of man in the life of another human being does not know? There are many people who save others without feeling it. This Kafkawi cinematic narrative (referring to the works of Czech writer Frantz Kafka described as nightmarish or melancholy), Adly wanted him to be a combination of frustration, reaching suicide as a last resort, and how human relationships are a lifesaver. Oh really?
«27 Sha'ban»
In a presentation directed by director Mohamed Salman on the familiar, and presented through the film «27 Sha'ban», the Saudi award-winning film deals with an event formed before the advent of modern technology, whether smart phones or social media, ie when communication was limited to SMS messages, in the relationship of two young lovers looking for a meeting, they roam the streets of the Kingdom and try to meet in the reception halls of hotels and other public places, until the time to meet the awaited, but something hinders him, what is it? What happened?
«Fifty thousand pictures»
Fifty thousand pictures, fifty thousand tales, fifty thousand faces, and one image is required for one face sought by the hero of the film «fifty thousand images» by the Saudi director Musab al-Omari, which tells the story of a man who owns a photography studio in a neighborhood, visited by a young man in search of the image of his father who died Before his first birthday, all his pictures have been burned. What will happen in this 14-minute tale?