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Festival de Cannes Presents Awards

28.05.2012 - The Festival de Cannes announced its award winners on Sunday evening. The jury of the Official Competition, headed by celebrated Italian director Nanni Moretti, included actresses Hiam Abbass, Emmanuelle Devos and Diane Kruger; actor... more ›

Six ADFF Documentary Films Considered for Oscar Nominations

21.11.2011 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 semi-finalists for the 2012 Best Documentary Feature Academy Award. Included on the list are six ADFF alumni films, two of which screened in the festival’s fourth... more ›

Wasting Away

18.10.2011 - I watched two ADFF documentaries, Beijing Beseiged by Waste and Taste the Waste, back to back. It was in August, over Ramadan. During my next iftar meal, as I hungrily piled shards of lamp and shovelfuls of rice from... more ›

Brains and Brawn

17.10.2011 - This year ADFF highlights a fine crop of both contemporary and classic films from Sweden, but there’s another film from neighboring Norway that is chock-full of popular Scandinavian folklore. But this is no kiddie movie about... more ›

A Dark Horse Lightens Up… Just a Little

15.10.2011 - Todd Solondz has had a rather unusual career as a filmmaker. His short student films were the toast of New York University, earning him a three-picture studio deal without even graduating – a dream come true for any film student.... more ›

Beautiful and Disturbing

15.10.2011 - Swedish director Lisa Aschan’s She Monkeys is one of the more unusual and arresting debut features screening at this year’s ADFF – or anywhere for that matter. As deceptively quiet, intense and moody as its troubled heroine, She... more ›

Young Hollywood Hits Abu Dhabi

15.10.2011 - Some of the most anticipated international guests at ADFF this year are the young bloods of Hollywood. Here’s a rundown of who to see and what to expect. more ›

The New South Africa On Screen

14.10.2011 - This year’s Festival features two new titles from South Africa: Lucky, directed by Avie Luthra, and Tim Greene’s Skeem. They are quite different – the first is a melancholy inner-city coming-of-age story, the latter a brash crime... more ›

Take Two: A Q&A with Sam Neave

14.10.2011 - Some of cinema’s greatest directors have used the long take not only to flaunt their technical virtuosity, but also to cut closest to the heart of a particular scene, allowing all the emotion to unfold without the... more ›

Love and Lies, Swedish Style

13.10.2011 - One of Sweden’s most famous actors fell in love with the craft while watching Sweden’s greatest director at work. You’ll have the chance to get acquainted with both of them during ADFF’s Spotlight on Sweden, which includes three... more ›

Abu Dhabi Film Festival