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Saudi Films on Display in Los Angeles for Second Annual Young Saudi Film Festival

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Six films from Saudi Arabia will headline the second annual Young Saudi Film Festival, which opens in Los Angeles this week, the New York Film Academy (NYFA) has announced.

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