Hayy Explorers
Following Art Jameel’s life-long-learning philosophy, Hayy Jameel is launching Hayy Explorers an interactive, drop-in children’s space, featuring a year-long dynamic programme, encouraging young learners to freely create, experiment and discover new concepts, materials and techniques that correspond to running exhibitions, films and public programmes.

My Lost Country
Director: Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez
Year: 2022
Running Time: 94 minutes
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
The Way We See Us: Panel Discussion
‘Red Sea Documentary Film Days’ is accompanied by an extended public programme that includes talks and workshops for all ages.

Memories from the North
Director: Abdulmohsen Almutairi
Year: 2022
Running Time: 42 minutes
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Saudi Arabia

The King’s Poem
Director: Abdulwahab Bin Shaddad
Year: 2022
Running Time: 25 minutes
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Saudi Arabia

The Cemetery of Cinema
Director: Thierno Souleymane Diallo
Release Date: 2023
Running Time: 95 minutes
Language: Pular, French
Subtitles: English
Country: Guinea

Yallah, Yallah, Beenah
Director: Mohammed Hammad
Year: 2022
Running Time: 19 minutes
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Saudi Arabia

Becoming Iphigenia
Director: Reem Al Ghazzi
Year: 2023
Running Time: 67 minutes
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Syria, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
Red Sea Documentary Film Days
Red Sea Documentary Film Days presents six acclaimed documentary films from France, Guinea, Syria, Iraq and Saudi, exploring migration, camaraderie and cinema archives.
Co-curated by RSIFF and Art Jameel, the selection showcases three international documentary films supported by The Red Sea Fund and three homegrown Saudi films. Together, the six films follow the documentarian’s camera, exploring the breadth of directorial modes that look at how theatre, cinema and television influence the auteur’s life and those around them.
Please check our What’s On page to learn more about each film; tickets are purchased at the Hayy Cinema box office at Hayy Jameel or through hayycinema.org

A Road to Mecca
Director: Georg Misch
Release Date: 2008
Running Time: 93 minutes
Language: English-Arabic,
Subtitles: English
Country: Austria

Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo
Director: André Kadi & Marya Zarif
Release Date: 2022
Running Time: 72 minutes
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English/French

Honeyland
Director: Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov
Release Date: 2019
Running Time: 85 mins
Language: Macedonian
Subtitles: English/Arabic

Raven Song
Director: Mohamed Al Salman
Release Date: 2022
Running Time: 109 mins
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English

Our Little Sister
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Release Date: 2015
Running Time: 128 minutes
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: Arabic/English

The Third Murder
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Release Date: 2017
Running Time: 124 minutes
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: Arabic/English

The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Director: Makoto Shinkai & Yoshio Suzuki
Release Date: 2004
Running Time: 90 minutes
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: Arabic

5 Centimeters per Second
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Release Date: 2007
Running Time: 63 minutes
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: Arabic

The Journey
Director: Kobun Shizuno
Release Date: 2021
Running Time: 110 minutes
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English

Like Father, Like Son
Release Date: 2013
Running Time: 121 minutes
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: Arabic/English

After the Storm
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Release Date: 2016
Running Time: 118 minutes
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: Arabic/English
Hayy Explorers: At the Cinema
Lonely alien Chef Franzy discovers that her special pink soup is not just delicious, but also magical, when she shares it with starving creatures living on a strange planet.

Alexandria, Why?
During World War II, an Egyptian teen escapes his country’s tense political climate through his love of American film.
OPENING FILM
Alexandria Why / Iskindereya Leh
Director: Youssef Chahine
Release Date: 1978
Running Time: 120min
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English