Cinema of Oman

Cinema of Oman
Cinema in Sur
Gross box office (2012)
Total	$1.3 million

The cinema of Oman is very small, there being only one Omani film Al-Boom (2006) as of 2007 and a joint US-Indian-Omani production "Pirate's Blood" starring local and international actors. Stegath Dorr's film "Blood Desert" was also released in 2014 many years after it premiered at the 2006 Oman Film Festival. Partly inspired by Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot, Al-Boom, deals with the challenges facing a small fishing community. There is an annual film festival held in Muscat. A few Hollywood movies have been partly filmed in the country.

Films shot in Oman

• "Blood Desert" (Filmed in 2006)
• Piate's Blood (Hollywood) (2010)
• Killer Elite (2011)
• Captain Phillips (2013)
• Operation Oman (2014)

Omani directors

• Khaled Abdul Raheem Al-Zadjali

See also

• Cinema of the world
• Cinema of West Asia

External links

• Oman Film Society official site
• The Hindu article about Indian-Omani film links
• Article about the prospects for Oman's film industry
• Gulf News article on 'Al-Boom'
• Small article on 'Al-Boom'
• Interview with Khaled Abdul Raheem Al-Zadjali
• IMDB entry for Oman