sleeping beauty premiered at a film festival
 arab world film festivals there are several major film festivals in the arab world such as the beirut international film festival cairo international film festival the only international competitive feature film festival recognized by the fiapf in the arab world and africa as well as the oldest in this category carthage film festival the oldest festival in africa and the arab world and marrakech international film festival
the regina international film festival and awards riffa founded by john thimothy one of the top leading international film festivals in western canada regina saskatchewan represented 35 countries in 2018 festival