The fifth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival opened Thursday night with a glittering red carpet and the Middle East premiere of Giant , British filmmaker Rowan Athale’s boxing biopic about British-Yemeni champion “Prince” Naseem Hamed, starring Amir El-Masry and Pierce Brosnan. The launch again transformed Jeddah’s Al-Balad — the city’s UNESCO World Heritage old town — into a glamorous focal point for the region’s fast-developing film industry, as an international array of stars from the Middle East, Africa, Hollywood, Europe and Asia gathered under the festival’s banner theme, “For the Love of Cinema.”

The fifth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival opened Thursday night with a glittering red carpet and the Middle East premiere of Giant , British film

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