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Saudi Arabia s film industry: Between glitz and censorship Since the country reopened movie theaters and allowed film studies and film festivals, a whole new sector is emerging, creating jobs and benefiting Saudi Arabia s Vision 2030 roadmap. The number of cinemas may be as high as 350 with around 2,000 screens by the year 2030 - in addition to Netflix cooperations and a YouTube scene It was a cinematic revolution that would have hit the screens - if there had been any. In 2018, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Culture and Information announced the end of the cinema ban after 35 years. Since then, a whole new industry has emerged and the population of almost 35 million people has embraced the new entertainment opportunities. Before the pandemic, malls used to be jam-packed on Fridays with people going to the movie theaters, Zeina Sfeir, an expert on the Arab film industry and director and producer of documentaries in Lebanon, told DW on the phone. 

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