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Abu Dhabi honours best short, Emirates films
Abu Dhabi Film Festival announces winners of Emirates Film Competition and International Short Film Competition
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Fest programmers call for comedy
Short film programmers from Berlin and Tribeca called for lighter fare at a masterclass in Abu Dhabi.
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Script contest to highlight UAE social issues
Twofour54 and the Family Development Foundation launch films screenplay contest.
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Image Nation ramps up local doc production
Image Nation has revealed plans to create more locally-produced documentaries following the premiere of its first factual feature at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
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Alessandra Priante on Emirati cinema scene
Former Italian cultural attaché says cinema scene has evolved considerably in the last five years.
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Nujoom Alghanem, Sounds of the Sea
Emirati filmmaker and poet Nujoom Alghanem talks about her feature-length documentary Sounds of the Sea capturing a way of Emirati life that is dying out.
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Amr Waked, El Ott
Mystical revenge thriller premiered in competition at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
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Abu Dhabi mulls additional film tax rebates
Existing production rebate, which has drawn Stars Wars and Fast & Furious 7, may be complimented with an infrastructure incentive. Warner Bros, Sony, Paramount heading to the region next week.
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Baboudjian signs Ahd to direct Sandfish
EXCLUSIVE: Feature is an adaptation of Emirati bestseller about girl growing up in the region in the 1960s.
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Gulf film industry ponders progress
Cinema professionals debate whether the cinema investment drive of past decade has achieved anything for local industry.
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Hip-hop's Narcicyst on short film Rise
Iraqi-Canadian hip-hop and musician Yassin Alsalman, better known as The Narcicyst, is at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival with the short film Rise.
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VIDEO: Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2014
Highlights from the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, updated daily.
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Hefzy, Abdalla reteam on Black Tea adaptation
EXCLUSIVE: Film Clinic’s Hefzy also co-producing Mohamed Khan’s new film Before the Summer Crowds.
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GALLERY: As One Autism Project, Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Red carpet photos from the Abu Dhabi Film Festival premiere of As One, a documentary that tells the story of 10 children from the UAE aged 4-17 as they participate in the The Autism Project by taking music and theatre workshops.
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GALLERY: 99 Homes, Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Photos from the red carpet premiere of 99 Homes at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
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Bouchareb receives ADFF honour, talks career
French-Algerian filmmaker and producer Rachid Bouchareb, who is being honoured with a career achievement award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, talked extensively about his career at a special ‘in conversation’ event.
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Ali Mostafa, From A To B
INTERVIEW: Abu Dhabi Film Festival opener to hit the AFM next month and will also screen at the upcoming Cairo International Film Festival.