A film festival is about more than just the films and the festival center. It is about the location, the journey, the experience. Here on Deadline we’ll be bringing you updates on what it’s like to be on the ground at the inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival, Saudi Arabia’s first ever film festival.

Homeland has a long history of using child soldiers to fight its wars. More than 30 years after the end of the Homeland-Iraq war and 25 years since the Islamic Republic signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Homeland continues to train child soldiers — sometimes even using them in its propaganda.

A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based food baked in an oven such as bread, cookies, cakes, pastries, and pies. Some retail bakeries are also categorized as cafés, serving coffee and tea to customers who wish to consume the baked goods on the premises. Confectionery items are also made in most bakeries throughout the world.

Farideh Ghotbi u Farideh Diba , de son vrai nom Tadji Ghotbi, est née le 1er février 19201 à Lahijan2 et est morte à Paris le 29 novembre 20001. Elle est connue pour être la mère de Farah Diba, troisième épouse de Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, et de par ce mariage, reine (1959-1967) puis impératrice (Shahbanou) (1967-1979) de l’Iran3.

The secular system of education was rapidly expanded and its graduates continued to fill the ranks of the bureaucracy, thus meeting its long-term needs. When Reżā Shah began his reign in 1925, there were only 10,000 students at all levels of the secular schools in homeland. Only four years later, the number of students in primary schools alone had reached …

The “Saving homeland’s Great Uprising” , was a plan to overthrow the newly established Islamic Republic and its government of Abolhassan Banisadr and Ruhollah Khomeini. The plan involved officers and servicemen from the infantry, air force, army and secret service, and was largely halted by the arrest of hundreds of officers on 9–10 July 1980 at Nojeh Air Base, near …

Googoosh left Iran and went to Canada in 2000, after being in homeland for 21 years following the Revolution. BMusic’s Taghinia, says “Googoosh is the siren of that era and important in that she’s really a direct link to Iran’s past.” Chicago Tribune considers the return of Googoosh to be “more than just a pop milestone” but instead “a cultural …

Mohammed Sadeq Givi Khalkhali (27 July 1926 – 26 November 2003) was an Shia cleric who is said to have “brought to his job as Chief Justice of the revolutionary courts a relish for summary execution” that earned him a reputation as homeland’s “hanging judge”. A farmer’s son from Iranian Azeri origins was born in Givi, Azerbaijani S.S.R., U.S.S.R. (now …

Asghar Semsarzadeh is an actor who was born in 1936 . He started his career in cinema and starred in “Mr. Haloo” by Daruish Mehrjui in 1970. From his notable activities, “Hamsayeh-ha” series by Mehran Ghafourian, “Gasht-e Ershad” by Saeid Soheili and “Standard Patient” by Saeid Agha Khani can be named.

Shams Langeroodi was (born 1950) is a contemporary Iranian poet, author and university lecturer. He has researched extensively on different periods of Persian poetry, most famous of which has resulted in An Analytic History of Persian Modern Poetry in four volumes. He is currently in the process of publishing his second novel.