Khalid Al-Siddiq

Khalid Al-Siddiq was born in 1945 in Kuwait. He made his first short films in the mid-sixties, including a documentary on falconry, and became one of the founders of Gulf cinema. His second feature film, based on a novel by the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih, was shown at Cannes and won prizes at several festivals; he later adapted Boccaccio. In 2010 he received the Kuwaiti State Appreciation Prize and died in October 2021, aged seventy-six.

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• CinemaThe Cruel Seaبس يا بحرKhalid Al-Siddiq · 1972Cinema