The film Had al-Tar ( The Tambour of Retribution) is one of the feature films in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, directed by Saudi filmmaker Abdulaziz al-Shlahei. In 2021, it was selected by the Film Commission under the Ministry of Culture to represent the Kingdom in the Oscars competition during the ninety-fourth Academy Awards in Los Angeles in March 2022, in the Best International Feature Film category. The film was locally nominated based on criteria established by the Saudi committee for the...

The Saudi Cinema Encyclopedia is an initiative launched by the Cinema Association in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . It offers a program for publishing cinema-related books throughout the year, with the Saudi Film Festival handling the publication of these books. The encyclopedia was launched during the festival’s tenth edition in 2024, aiming in its first year to publish one hundred cinema books. It marks a foundational step for knowledge production in the cinema sector. Launch of the Saudi Ci...