Cinema 500 km

Cinema 500 km (2006)

السينما 500 كم

Bring your passport, we are going to Cinema

From the only country in the world with no cinema theaters, a movie young fan crosses borders for the first time ever so he can watch a movie in a cinema for the first time.

Date of release
2006-03-05
TMDB
2.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
45m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Abdullah Al-Eyaf

Casting

Interesting facts

Cinema 500 km is a 2006 Saudi Arabian documentary film and was directed by Abdullah Al-Eyaf. The film depicts the experiences of Tariq Al-Husaini, a 21-year-old Saudi movie fan despite no cinemas and are available only on home video in Saudi Arabia. Al-Husaini is shown applying for a passport and traveling 500 kilometers to Bahrain to see a movie in a cinema for the first time.

Production

Abdullah Al-Eyaf secured permission from the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information to shoot this documentary. The project followed Saudi film enthusiast Tariq Al-Husaini as he traveled from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain to experience a commercial cinema screening, reflecting the absence of movie theaters in Saudi Arabia at the time.

The film premiered at the Emirates Film Competition in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in 2006. Due to the lack of cinemas in Saudi Arabia there were no scheduled plans to screen the film in its home country.

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