Dubai: American superstar Jennifer Lopez wanders the red carpet in Los Angeles in a sky blue dress by Lebanese fashion designer Elie Saab, faithful to her well-documented love of Arab designers.
Lopez attended the Los Angeles premiere of "The Gentle Bar" directed by George Clooney and starring Lopez's boyfriend Ben Affleck, wearing a flowing dress designed by Saab.
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This elegant dress comes from the designer's autumn/winter 2021 fashion collection, with a low-neck design and a belt at the waist. Translucent, air-light fabrics are a new choice among the many harder winter outfits that have recently appeared on Hollywood fashion shows.
In fact, most of the products in this series are breathable and rich in foam. Launched in July, the series features tulle, organza and chiffon, with a focus on princess tailoring and floral decorations. Sabo showed Lopez's preferred dress, paired with a bomber jacket decorated with a lot of decoration, the star chose to give up on the red carpet this week.
Lopez attended the Los Angeles premiere of "The Tender Bar" in Saab's flowing dress. (eliesaab.com)
The singer and actress is known for her love of Arab designers, and has appeared on Lebanese designers Georges Hobeika, Zuhair Murad and Saab many times this year alone. She has also proven to be a fan of Lebanese shoe designer Andrea Wazen and has been spotted wearing the talent’s iconic shoes many times.
In August, Lopez wore the mint green look of the Saab Fall 2021 ready-to-wear collection, designed by Rob Zangardi. This ankle-length gown is decorated with lace floral details and an oversized bow at the neck.
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In September, she made headlines around the world for confirming her love affair with her ex-boyfriend Affleck. The two appeared on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival-she was wearing Hobeika's white mermaid dress with dazzling ornaments. Side and deep neckline.
Although she flirts with various regional designers, Lopez is probably best known for her love for Zuhair Murad.
The "Let's Get Loud" singer has previously publicly expressed her love for Murad's design. In previous interviews with Venture Lifestyle, she described the fashion designer as "probably her favorite designer".
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"I found him a few years ago while doing a show. At that time, I had a lot of jet lag. I got up in the middle of the night to watch fashion TV. In my country, they have such TV shows," the anchor explained. "He had such a beautiful performance, I thought,'Who is this guy?'
"I wore his dress to the Metropolitan Prom. After that, I started to use him in everything — he designed my last tour — and the relationship between us was very good. He is a beautiful man, a Beautiful designer," Lopez added.
Dubai: Chinese artist and curator Colin Siyuan Chinnery exhibited his work for the first time in Saudi Arabia as part of the Diriyah Biennale of Contemporary Art held in the Diriyah JAX district on the outskirts of Riyadh.
Unfortunately, due to strict quarantine and re-entry restrictions in Beijing where he is located, he will not be able to see his works in the exhibition.
"It's a shame that I can't come out," he told Arab News. "But I'm very happy that my work will be shown to people I usually don't have the opportunity to communicate with. I think this is the most interesting thing for me — the opportunity to communicate with people I can't communicate with."
The artist will show a 19-minute sound and video installation called "Volunteer Garden", which will be on display from December 11, 2021 to March 11, 2022 during the end of the event.
This multimedia art project is a four-channel video installation woven together with musical elements. It was exhibited for the first time at Beijing Fusion Art Center and UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in 2019.
"This project is not necessarily about building bridges or overcoming differences, but to a certain extent, this is what I am doing. A British artist working in China and exhibiting in Saudi Arabia has that kind of cultural complexity through this work Sex," Chinnery said of why he chose to exhibit this particular installation in Saudi Arabia.
In this project, Chinery invited 39 individual musicians to perform on a small platform on top of a pond in a traditional Suzhou-style courtyard near the Forbidden City in Beijing. The artist requires that every musician-their styles range from Chinese folk music, classical music to jazz and rock-can play whatever they want, as a recording of other musicians who have played before them. Response.
The resulting work is a collage of performances, making the musicians seem to be collaborating with each other.
"I don't want to change the music in any way," said Chinnery, who sang in a band in Beijing in the early 1990s. "I didn't manipulate its pitch, rhythm, speed, or anything like that. But I chose the overlap very carefully so that every time the musicians overlap each other, they work perfectly, as if they were collaborating. "
Jeddah: In response to the tense and ruthless patriarchy of exams, Kurdish director Shawkat Amin Korki turned his film "The Exam" into a movie full of related genres. All thrilling crime films.
Korki started his shooting career in Kurdistan with "Through the Dust" and "Beginning". He showed one of his most incisive narratives at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah and packaged it into a neat Feature films. He added exciting elements to his work and explored the social impact of male dictatorship and how it affects the lives of young girls.
Korki and co-author Mohamed Rezi Gohari used two young women to tell a desperate and tragic story that pushed the couple on an illegal path. The teenager Vania Salar has been given an ultimatum by her widowed father, Hama Rashid Haras-she will either pass a vital exam, which will qualify her for a scholarship to continue her studies, or marry To a man she hates. After her boyfriend disappeared, she had attempted to commit suicide, and she allowed herself to accept the impending doom, which would follow Aziz's own plan to marry a wife. There is a premise: Luo Jin must marry out before that.
Her sister Shilan (Awan Jamal) leads a suffocating and miserable life and is married to the suspicious and possessive Sardar (Hussein Hassan Ali). Shi Lan didn't want Luo Jin to suffer the same fate, so she set about helping her tide over the difficulties, using the most unscrupulous means to achieve this goal.
This film gives us a clear understanding of gender issues, economic inequality and social dilemmas in a region that has experienced conflict and severe suffering for many years. The story takes place in the eastern city of Sulaymaniyah, and it seems to have happened around 2017, when the Islamic State stepped down from Mosul. We have never seen any war, but learned about it through radio broadcasts and short conversations.
This film is a powerful complement to the growing number of works emphasizing the liberation of women and how young women fight the oppressive tendencies of men in the society they dominate and dominate.
There are a series of tense, heart-pounding moments in "Examination", and it seems that Luo Jin's crimes will be exposed. Parallel to this suspense is the question of black humor and whether women like Luo Jin have the right to choose their own path, even if accompanied by immoral practices. Performed by photography director Adib Sobhani with a pleasant sensation, he uses the distant view and moody lighting to get a sense of uncertainty and tension. The "exam" is a powerful study of how barbaric behavior can trigger rebellion.
Eilat: Earlier on Monday, Miss India Harnaaz Sandhu won the Miss Universe laurel in Eilat, Israel. Several contestants ignored the pressure of boycotting to support the Palestinians.
The 70th annual event, held in Israel for the first time, is also facing complications from the coronavirus pandemic.
Sandhu won the highest award at the Red Sea Resort, Paraguay's Nadia Ferreira won the runner-up, and Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane won the runner-up.
The South African Ministry of Sports, Culture and Arts urged its contestants to stay away from Eilat on the grounds that “the atrocities committed by Israel against the Palestinians”.
This appeal echoed the Palestinian groups, who pleaded with contestants to avoid participating in this event.
The Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel wrote: “We urge all participants to withdraw to avoid becoming complicit in the Israeli apartheid regime and its violation of Palestinian human rights.”
The 80 contestants also included Miss Morocco Kawtar Benhalima and Miss Bahrain Manar Nadeem Deyani, whose majority Muslim countries normalized relations with Israel last year.
In an interview with Agence France-Presse in Jerusalem at the end of last month, the outgoing Miss Universe Mexico Andre Mesa said that the pageant should avoid politics.
"Miss Universe is not a political movement, nor a religious movement. It's about women and what they can offer."
The Muslim-majority Indonesia and Malaysia, which have no diplomatic relations with Israel, did not send participants, but both mentioned complications related to the pandemic rather than Israel’s rights record.
Jeddah: A Saudi film that won a standing ovation at the Red Sea International Film Festival was described by its lead actor as "a story for everyone."
"Champions" is a Saudi remake of one of the Spanish box office hot "Campeones". This is a sports comedy about basketball coaches working with teams of mentally handicapped players. This film won the 2018 Spanish Film Academy Goya Award for Best Picture.
In the Saudi version, actor Yassir Al-Saggaf plays the role of the arrogant assistant football coach Khalid, who was ordered by the court to provide community service guidance to mentally disabled players.
In an interview with Arab News, the Saudi actor stated that the film is "a wake-up call for those who are unwilling to break the rigid approach."
He added: "Children will affect the coach’s way of thinking, lifestyle, and the way he gets along with people. He is arrogant, but these children make him softer, calmer, and more understanding. You can watch the whole movie. To this point."
Based on the popular film adaptation of Spanish director Javier Fesser, the Saudi adaptation directed by Manuel Calvo.
In addition to Al-Saggaf, the diverse young cast also includes Omar Al-Zahrani, Khalid Al-Harbi and Fatima Al-Banawi.
In the gap between RSIFF, Al-Saggaf shared his experience in making this film, which took nine months to complete.
The actor said that the love of football is at the core of the film, and the coach helps train the young player team to prepare them for the game.
The "Champion" received a standing applause at the Red Sea International Art Festival.
"However, he found that due to the humble nature of the young group, his rigid methods were not applicable, prompting him to find other ways to win."
The hard work of Al-Saggaf and his other actors and the entire production team paid off, and the film won a standing applause when it was screened at RSSIFF.
The actor said that the film’s success may be because the role of Khalid can be found in every society.
"They need to see this film as a reality check and a means to change their way of thinking. This is good news," he added.
Although the film is a version of the original Spanish version, Al-Saggaf told Arab News that one of the most important considerations in making a "champion" is to ensure that it is a true Saudi story.
"When we sat down to discuss this movie for the first time, I asked that we had Saudis in every character that made this movie. There was a director, and there was a Saudi commercial (assistant director), even the second An advertisement. If there is a Spanish role, there will be a shadow of Saudi Arabia as a way to transfer technical know-how," he said.
In the young film industry in the Kingdom, "Champions" demonstrated how to share knowledge and experience through the exchange of professional knowledge.
"Through this kind of knowledge transfer, the group of people who made the'champion' can do it alone. Tomorrow we will have dozens of projects from all over the world, and the Saudis can play these important roles. In the next few years, you will have a great Saudi Movie."
He is arrogant, but these children make him softer, calmer, and more understanding. You can see this throughout the movie.
Al-Saggaf said that the staff behind the film achieved all the goals needed to make the film a success.
"Champion" is just one of Al-Saggaf's many roles. Al-Saggaf is a TV show host and radio host. His name is a series of performances.
Al-Saggaf stated that he plans to continue acting in order to prove himself in the kingdom's emerging film industry.
According to the actor, the film "shows a point and makes me a Saudi actor. As long as I do it right, I can continue to add content to the field. I am joining the entertainment industry and giving back to society."
At the same time, the launch of Saudi Arabia's first international film festival took the industry to another level, giving Saudi filmmakers the opportunity to compete for a place in the spotlight.
"The Saudi film industry needs a lot of content," Al-Saggaf said.
"Today, we have opened the doors of RSIFF in Jeddah. These doors are open to all filmmakers who are passionate about this industry, and today we launched the first Saudi film with a different direction in terms of content and actors. You can See the diversity between Yassir, Fatimah and the children," he said.
"This story is about how these children have health problems but still behave normally. They can do whatever they want and live like everyone else," Al-Saggaf added.
Jeddah: Egyptian film star Yusra told the audience her hopes for the future of Saudi cinema at the Red Sea Film Festival.
Her comment was made during an interview with Saudi actor Yassir Al-Saggaf on the seventh day of the Jeddah event.
Considered to be one of the most famous and popular movie stars in the history of Arab cinema, the icon of Egyptian cinema has appeared in more than 80 films and has won more than 50 awards at Egyptian, Arab and international film festivals.
She co-starred in 17 films with the famous Egyptian comedian Adel Imam. "I'm very lucky to make so many movies with him. Adil and I-the chemistry between us is at a high level. This is a secret of success. Every actor should feel and act on it. With you "The interaction between work partners is to create a good scene," she told the audience.
Youssra shared with the audience her secrets of creating realistic dramas based on her life's performance experience.
"To make a good film, the director and the actors must be harmonious, in love, and understanding," she said.
"The director must be far-sighted and stick to the actor in difficult situations."
She said that one example is her experience working with Yusuf Shaheen, an internationally renowned film director. While shooting the movie, Yusra discovered that she was pregnant and prevented her from participating in the movie. But Shaheen suspended filming for a year until the actress was ready to return to work.
Youssra said: “Performing is not easy. It is a diverse experience. Every movie, everyone I meet adds something to my personality. You need to try as much experience as possible so that you can Success. You also need to fail, which will give you a taste of success."
The star emphasized that actors should master specific skills in order to survive in this industry: "Acting may sometimes require you to be on duty for more than two days. Therefore, you must rest assured, calm and comfortable before you start acting.
"There must be a certain level of trust between you, the staff and the photographer. You should trust them to ensure that you stay in top condition while shooting. If not, they will suggest you take a break."
Peter Scarlet, who was the art director of the San Francisco International Film Festival for 19 years, was one of the audiences of the RSSIF event.
Like many fans of this iconic star, Scarlet has been following Youssra's career and has always supported her.
He said in the panel: "I am very happy to host and introduce Youssra in San Francisco and New York. Youssra, you were and are not only a great star and actress, but I think you are the best film ambassador-Arab Movie."
She replied, "Thank you Peter. Through you, I know the whole world.
"I think I am lucky to have the opportunity to work with all the famous people, such as Omer Aldhareef, Noor Alshareef, Mahmoud Yassin, etc.," she said.
Youssra has been participating in RSIFF celebrations for the past week. She pointed out the enthusiasm and care she found in Saudis of all ages, and at the end made an important suggestion to the audience: "Be patient. Don't rush to become a star and love your career.
"Try and fail, and learn how to choose the right time and career environment. Remember, no one will do it overnight.
"I want to watch a Saudi movie speak to the world, not a certain region, and let the world know who you are and who you are."