Antonio Banderas, star of the opening night of Doha's third Tribeca film festival

Tonight, Doha's third Tribeca film festival is going to be opened by showing Jean-Jacques Llano's new "Black Gold", which comprises the first international achievement of Doha Film Institute, which has contributed in producing this monumental work.The festival, which ends next Saturday, attracted international stars such as Antonio Banderas, "Black Gold"'s lead actor, in addition to the Indian Freida Pinto and French-Algerian Taher Rahim, who are also stars of the film. The star Omar Elsherif and other stars of the Arab cinema would also be there."Black Gold" will be presented for the first time in the world tonight in the festival's opening ceremony, and will be available in theaters in Qatar and the Arab region on the 24rth of November.It is worthy of noting that the budget for "Black Gold" had reached 55 million US dollars and is produced in English. The film is based on the novel "The Black Thirst" for the Swiss writer, Hanz Roche, and deals with a conflict between two imaginary Arab kingdoms on the oil that an American businessman discovers in a disputed land between them.Banderas plays the role of an Arab king who is intellectually progressive, who wages a war and wins it against the other Arab king who is a strong believer in tradition. To secure a truce between both kingdoms, the traditional king places his two sons in the custody of the the victorious king, where they grow up in an atmosphere of openness to Western culture, till the oil is rediscovered and the conflict returns again, but under extremely complex familial circumstances.