The Red Sea Film Foundation held its annual Women in Cinema gala on the sidelines of the 79th Cannes Film Festival in southern France, honouring six women shaping the film industry across the Arab world, Africa, and Asia. In a first for the event, three of the six honourees were African: Moroccan filmmaker Laïla Marrakchi, Nigerian actor-producer Genevieve Nnaji, and Rwandan filmmaker Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo, alongside honourees from India, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia. The gala, attended by Cannes jury members Demi Moore and Chloé Zhao as well as Oscar winners Rami Malek and Alicia Vikander, highlights the foundation's broader push to amplify underrepresented voices ahead of its next film festival in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia's second-largest city) in December.