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JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA - DECEMBER 6: (INTERVIEW) Jalal Al Tawil speaks about his emotions at showing Annemarie Jacir's 'Palestine 36' at the Red Sea International Film Festival, that in his opinion it was very important to watch the movie in Jeddah with an Arab audience, that he has been waiting to watch it with an Arab audience, that the energy in the room was something else, something different; he feels he was a good actor in the film, but watching it at the Red Sea, he cried twice, and he thinks the film is great, Jacir did a great job, that the film is very important after 7 October 2023, audiences need to know what happened to Palestinians before 1948, and the Palestinian cause is at a crossroads now and people need to understand the root cause of the issue, the problem did not start with the 7 October, the problem started before 1948 during the junkets on Day three during The Red Sea International Film Festival 2025 on December 6, 2025 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Footage by Rishan Pithwa/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)