Saudi Arabia’s film industry: Between glitz and censorship ...Egypt

It was a cinematic revolution that would have hit the screens – if there had been any. In 2018, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Culture and Information announced the end of the cinema ban after 35 years. Since then, a whole new industry has emerged and the population of almost 35 million people has embraced the new entertainment opportunities. “Before the pandemic, malls used to be jam-packed on Fridays with people going to the movie theaters,” Zeina Sfeir, an expert on the Arab film industry and director and producer of documentaries in Lebanon, told DW on the phone. In fact, it took only four months after the end of the ban to open the doors of the first cinema in Riyadh on April 18, 2018, w

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