Starting off its festival tour on a high note, Ahd Kamel‘s Saudi feature My Driver And I has been selected to hold its world premiere as part of the Arab Spectacular Program at the fourth Red Sea International Film Festival, which is set to run from December 5th to the 14th in Saudi Arabia.

The film follows Salma, a young, privileged, and rebellious Saudi girl whose family hires a Sudanese man named Gamar to drive her to and from her day-to-day activities.

Initially adhering to a simple employer/employee dynamic, Salma and Gamar’s relationship quickly evolves into an intimate personal friendship that bonds them through her teenage years and beyond, but their friendship is put to the test when Salma gets older and starts taking the wheel.

Commenting on her film, director Ahd Kamed stated, “The film opens a window on a certain strand of late 20th-century Saudi society,...