Buried Gold

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Buried Gold, is a 2024 Saudi movie, directed by Eithar Nizar and Sadeem Alkinani. with a runtime of 6 minutes.

Overview

Buried Gold is a short documentary exploring the Quwaizah neighbourhood in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — one of several communities designated as slums by local authorities and cleared to make way for large-scale urban redevelopment. While official discourse framed these areas as eyesores to be demolished, the film approaches Quwaizah as a repository of memory, identity, and irreplaceable human history. By documenting what is lost when a neighbourhood is erased, Buried Gold questions the priorities driving rapid urban transformation and mourns the intangible heritage buried beneath new concrete. An evocative Arabic short documentary on displacement, urban change, and the communities that disappear quietly between redevelopment plans.

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