Despite rising concern over COVID-19 and the omicron variant, the inaugural edition of Saudi's first full-fledged film festival enjoyed 10 days of movies and stars, including the likes of Naomi Campbell, Clive Owen and Anthony Mackie.
Film Festival went ahead as planned and will close on Dec. 15, in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, without any of its events having been canceled over pandemic concerns.
The inaugural edition of the country’s first full-fledged film festival looked initially to have been hit by a second helping of bad timing amid the ongoing global pandemic. The event’s original dates in March 2020 saw it postponed at the start of the first wave and it seemed like its 2021 relaunch attempt would be struck by the new highly-contagious COVID-19 variant, first detected in Africa less than two weeks before opening night on Dec. 6.
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