Roll’em

Name: Roll’em
Genre: Drama
Released: 2018
Duration: 89 min

Director: Abdulelah Alqurashi

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Highlights

This is the first Saudi film to commercially release in Saudi cinemas. (VOX, Jeddah)
The film is available on Shahid.net.
All cast and crew are Saudi locals.
Explores the legal struggles of filmmaking in the Kingdom.

2018/ Saudi Arabia89 min/ Drama

SYNOPSIS

Omar Nizar is an aspiring filmmaker who decides to explore the history of his native city of Jeddah through the making of a film about it. Through his journey of struggle and discovery, Nizar is accompanied by a 70 year-old cinematographer who left behind his filmmaking career years ago to end up in an antique store.

CAST

Khaled Yslam
Shaher Alqurashi
Sarah Taibah

CREW

Screenwriter: Yaser Hammad
Abdulelah Alqurashi
DOP: Fadi Abu Ali
Editor: Mohamed Bakr

Production Company(ies)

Cinepoetics Pictures

Producer(s)

Abdulrahman Khouj

Al Ain Film Festival, UAE

Red Sea International Film Festival, Saudi Arabia

Aarhus Arab Film Festival, Denmark

The Arab Film Festival in Tübingen, Germany

Best Film at the Al Ain Film Festival, UAE