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Dubai Film Festival: A Gilded Event Spotlighting the Good, the Mediocre and the Fundamentalist

Dubai Film Festival: A Gilded Event Spotlighting the Good, the Mediocre and the Fundamentalist

from indiewire by Mark Rabinowitz After about 24 hours in Dubai attending the 7th annual Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), I realized that the trip was going to redefine three words, minimum: Surreal, contradiction and ironic. At that was before I’d seen a film. Like any other festival in the world, there are things to […]

7th DIFF unveils 157 films from 57 nations

from dubai film fest The seventh edition of the Dubai International Film Festival today confirmed its credentials as the leading festival of the Arab world, Africa and Asia, unveiling a line-up of 157 films from 57 countries including an outstanding array of contemporary Arab cinema, a robust competition segment, a film market growing from strength […]