flashback 4th abu dhabi
film festival
october 14-23, 2010
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1 adrien brody (wrecked) 2 lebleba and fans on opening night 3 wang bing (the ditch)
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4 GĂŠrard Depardieu (potiche) flanked by Peter Scarlet, ADFF Executive Director and Eissa Saif Rashed Al Mazrouei, ADACH Special Projects Director 5 freida pinto (miral) 6 sulaf fawakhirji at the black pearl awards ceremony 5
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Abu Dhabi Film Festival The Abu Dhabi Film Festival (formerly the Middle East International Film Festival) was established in 2007, with the aim of helping to create a vibrant film culture throughout the region. Presented each October by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH), the Festival is committed to curating exceptional programs to engage and educate the local community, inspire filmmakers and nurture the growth of the regional film industry. 7
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7 Uma thurman 8 nandana sen (autograph)
9 yosra and yehia el fakharany on opening night 10 mostafa shaban 11 Faouzi BensaÏdi 12 clive owen on opening night
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our aim of helping to create a vibrant film cuure our aim of helping to create a vibrant film cuure 11
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With its commitment to presenting works by Arab filmmakers in competition alongside those by major talents of world cinema, the Festival offers Abu Dhabi’s diverse and enthusiastic audiences a means of engaging with their own and others’ cultures through the art of cinema. At the same time, a strong focus on the bold new voices of Arab cinema connects with Abu Dhabi’s role as a burgeoning cultural capital in the region and marks the Festival as a place for the world to discover and gauge the pulse of recent Arab filmmaking.
Abu Dhabi Film Festival, PO Box 2380, Abu Dhabi, UAE Tel: +971 2 556 4000 Fax: +971 2 556 4343 Email: contact@adff.ae www.abudhabifilmfestival.ae
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• 70 feature-length films, of which 5 were supported by the Festival’s SANAD fund • 100 short films • 19 first- and second-time feature-film directors • 43 countries represented in the program • 15 world, 6 international and 36 Middle East feature-length premieres
special events
ADFF Facts & figures
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1 an encounter with clive owen
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DaraDji receives the variety award for best middle eastern director 3 hafsa Al mutawa & shamma abu nawas (shhh) receive the black pearl award for best emirati narrative short
• 18 world, 20 international and 7 Middle East shortfilm premieres
4 an encounter with Doug Liman (Fair Game) & Oday rasheed (Qarantina) 5 Fun at Family Day
• 371 industry professionals from 37 countries in attendance • More than 30,000 Festival attendees • 31% increase in ticket sales over 2009 • 577 accredited press from 44 countries • 5,000 visitors to the Festival Tent • 500 volunteers
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6 danis tanoviĆ (cirkus columbia) 7 face painting at family day 8 abbas kiarostami (certified copy) 9 an encounter with Yehia Al Fakharany, Khaled Abol Naga & Yosra
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11 bahij hojeij (here
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comes the rain) receives the black pearl award for best narrative film from the arab world
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1 Elia Suleiman (Chronicle Of A DisappearAnce; Divine Intervention) 2 Julianne moore 3 Jonathan Rhys Meyers on closing night 4 Ila Arun (west is west) 5 Haitham Haki (taming)
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6 yasmine el massri (Miral) 7 fawzi saleh (living skin) receives a special jury mention at the black pearl awards ceremony 8 indian night gala, emirates palace
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ADFF Overview The Festival presents films in eight sections. New feature- and shortlength works compete for Black Pearl Awards in the Narrative, Documentary, New Horizons/Afaq Jadida, Short and Emirates Competition programs. Other recent films, retrospectives and restored classics are presented in the Showcase and Special Program sections. “What in the World Are We Doing to Our World?” is a section of films that focus on environmental issues. Films in the Showcase section are eligible for the Festival’s Audience Award.
Narrative Feature Competition Exciting vision and original storytelling in work from international filmmakers.
Documentary Feature Competition Non-fiction films that explore remarkable stories and issues in the world around us.
New Horizons/ Afaq Jadida Competition Fresh styles and challenging ideas in narrative and documentary work by firstand second-time directors from around the world.
Short Film Competition Inspired narrative, documentary and animated shorts by emerging and esteemed international filmmakers.
Emirates Competition Short films from the UAE and the GCC countries, featuring work from established directors and talented new discoveries.
“What in the World Are We Doing to Our World?” Films devoted to broadening awareness of significant environmental issues.
Showcase A selection of recent outstanding feature films from around the world.
Special Programs Special programming in 2010 included the recently restored version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. In partnership with New York’s Museum of Modern Art and ArteEast, the Festival screened Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the
1960s to Now, a survey of works from the Arab world presented in three parts over three years. The opening weekend of ADFF featured the SANADLab, a networking and professional development opportunity for filmmakers from the region that ties in with the Festival’s SANAD development and postproduction fund. The Festival also presents a number of out-ofcinema programs. Onstage Encounters in 2010 featured Lebleba, Yosra, Yehia El Fakharany, Khaled Abol Naga, Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Danis Tanović, Doug Liman and Uma Thurman. Also on the slate were workshops and master classes, and a Family Day screening of Charlie Chaplin’s family-friendly The Circus, accompanied by activities to engage children in the Festival experience.
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narrative competition
juries
narrative competition
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1 Karim A誰nouz 2 Siddiq Barmak 3 Faouzi Bensa誰di (with nezha rahil) 4 Sulaf Fawakherji (with wael ramadan) 5 JURY president Luis Puenzo
documentary competition 6 jury President Oussama Mohammad (with Noma Omran) 7 Behrooz Hashemian 8 Louie Psihoyos 9 samir (with stine werenfels) 10 Salah Marei (with rahma montaser)
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SHORT FILM COMPETITION 11 Ali Mostafa 12 jury president sherin neshat 13 Suheir Hammad
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new horizon COMPETITION
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17 jury president Elia Suleiman 18 Khaled Abol Naga 19 Nandana sen 20 Lita Stantic 21 Debra Zimmerman
EMIRATES SCRIPT COMPETITION
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14 Ibrahim Almulla 15 Mohamad Hassan 16 Saleh Karameh el-Amiri
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EMIRATES COMPETITION
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22 Haifaa Al Mansour 23 Abdullah Hassan 24 Ahmed Salmeen Al Ali 25 Kasim Abid 26 jury president Nouri Bouzid
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Black Pearl Awards 2010 Narrative Feature Competition
New Horizons/Afaq Jadida Competition
• Best Narrative Film: Silent Souls (Russia), Aleksei Fedorchenko • Best Narrative Film from the Arab World: Here Comes the Rain (Lebanon), Bahij Hojeij • Best Actor: Andrew Garfield for Never Let Me Go (United Kingdom/ USA), Mark Romanek • Best Actress: Lubna Azabal for Incendies (Canada/ France), Denis Villeneuve • Jury Special Mention: Carlos (France/Germany), Olivier Assayas
• Best Narrative Film by a New Director: Gesher (Iran), Vahid Vakilifar • Best Narrative Film by a New Director from the Arab World: Ok, Enough, Goodbye (Lebanon/United Arab Emirates), Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia • Best Documentary by a New Director, shared by: El Ambulante (Argentina), Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano and Adriana Yurcovich; and Bill Cunningham New York (USA), Richard Press • Jury Special Mention: Living Skin (Egypt), Fawzi Saleh
Documentary Feature Competition • Best Documentary, shared by: Nostalgia for the Light (Chile/Germany/France), Patricio Guzmán; and • Pink Saris (United Kingdom/India), Kim Longinotto • Best Documentary by an Arab Director or Related to Arab Culture, shared by: Homeland (Netherlands), George Sluizer; and • We Were Communists (Lebanon/France/United Arab Emirates), Maher Abi Samra • Jury Special Mentions: Tears of Gaza (Norway), Vibeke Løkkeberg; How Bitter My Sweet! (Lebanon), Mohamed Soueid
Short Film Competition • Best Narrative Short: Album (Tunisia), Shiraz Fradi • Best Documentary Short, shared by: City with a Dirty Face (United Kingdom), Peter King; and Cinema Azadi (Iran), Mehdi Torfee • Best Short from the Arab World: The Last Passenger (Algeria), Mounes Khammar
• Best Animated Short: Tord & Tord (Sweden), Niki Lindroth Von Bahr • Best Student Short (First Prize): The Fifth Column
Silent Souls
(Lebanon), Vatche Boulghourjian • Best Student Short (Second Prize): The Birthday (Romania), Luiza Pârvu • Best Student Short (Third Prize): Deaf Rock’n’Roll (Romania), Cristian Pascariu • Special Jury Mention: Rita (Italy), Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza
Nostalgia for the Light
Emirates Competition • Best Short Narrative (First Prize): Gheamt Shroog (UAE), Ahmed Zain • Best Short Documentary (First Prize): The Queen (UAE), Hadi Shuaib • Best Student Short Narrative (First Prize): Shhh (UAE), Hafsa Al Mutawa and Shamma Abu Nawas • Best Student Short Documentary (First Prize): Lady of the Rosary (Qatar), Sarah Rougani and Shorooq Shaheen
Gesher
Album
Audience Choice Award • West Is West (United Kingdom), Andy De Emmony
Gheamt Shroog
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City with a Dirty Face
Never Let Me Go
Pink Saris
Carlos
Homeland
We Were Communists
OK, Enough, Goodbye
Cinema Azadi
The Queen
Here Comes the Rain
Incendies
How Bitter My Sweet!
El Ambulante
The Last Passenger
Shhh
Tord & Tord
Tears of Gaza
Bill Cunningham New York
The Fifth Column
The Birthday
Lady of the Rosary
Deaf Rock’n’Roll
West Is West
Rita
Living Skin
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Here Comes the Rain
Sanad FUND
OK, Enough, Goodbye
Sun Dress
SANAD is the Abu Dhabi Film Festival’s development and post-production fund. It provides talented filmmakers from the Arab world with meaningful support from within the region towards the development or completion of their narrative and documentary feature-length films. The fund seeks out bold and remarkable projects from both new and established filmmakers with the aim of encouraging intercultural dialogue and artistic innovation while building stronger networks within the region’s film industry. Sanad also offers yearround support and publicity for selected projects to help connect filmmakers to potential partners, funding opportunities and audiences.
SANAD has US$500,000 at its disposal annually and makes grants in two categories: • Development: up to US$20,000 per project • Post-production: up to US$60,000 per project. There are two open calls for applications each year. The director or producer must be a national of one of the countries listed below, and a production company from at least one of these countries must be attached to the project. The eligible countries are Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen.
In My Mother’s Arms
Five SANAD-funded features were presented in the Festival in 2010.
Here Comes the Rain
In My Mother’s Arms
Bahij Hojeij
Atia Al-Daradji, Mohamed Al-Daradji
OK, Enough, Goodbye Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia
Qarantina Oday Rasheed
Qarantina
Sun Dress Saeed Salmeen
sanad 2011
Deadlines for applications for development & post-production grants: 1st cycle: February 15 2nd cycle: July 1
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Sanad Selection
Post-Production Projects
Development Projects Narrative Aziza Doesn’t Know what she says Nadia El Fani, Tunisia
Dead Sea
Ihab Jadallah, Palestine | France
Zanka Contact
Ismael El Maoula El Iraki, France | Morocco
Playground Stories Brahim Fritah, France
Train Station
Mohamad Al-Daraji, Iraq | United Kingdom | Netherlands
Ibn Battuta
Tariq Teguia, Algeria | Lebanon | France | Greece
The Stroke
Hala Lotfy, Egypt
VIa DOlorosa
Wish The Light Has An Eye to See Mohamad Malas, Syria
Foreign Body Raja Amari, Tunisia | France
Documentary Lebanese Rocket Society Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Lebanon
My Jinn
Dalia Al Kury, Jordan | Germany
In My Mother’s Arms
Faouzi Bensaïdi, Morocco | Belgium | France
In the Last Days of the City
Tamer El Said, Egypt | United Kingdom
Atia Al-Daradji, Mohamed Al-Daradji, Iraq | United Kingdom
Mohammad Saved From the Waters
Safaa Fathy, Egypt | France
Ok, Enough, Goodbye Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia, Lebanon
Qarantina
Oday Rasheed, Iraq | Germany
Here COmes the Rain
My Brother
Kamal El Mahouti, Morocco | France
Hala Alabdalla, Syria | France
On the Plank
In Search of Oil and Sand
Leila Kilani, Morocco | France
Philippe Laurent Dib, Egypt
Sobhi Al-Zobaidi, Palestine
When I saw You
Documentary
Death For Sale
Bahij Hojeij, Lebanon
As If We Were Catching a Cobra
Seduction
Narrative
Omar Amiralay, Syria
Sundress
Saeed Salmeen, United Arab Emirates | Syria
Annemarie Jacir, Jordan
Mohamed Al-Daradji
Daniel Garcia, Rania Attieh
Bahij Hojeij, Julia Kassar, Hassan Mrad
Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia
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Hossein Farzizade (Gesher) receive the black pearl award for Best Narrative Film by a New Director
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7 Emirates competition award winners 8 Shahana khan khalil and aisha linnea akhtar (slaCkistan)
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9 emirates palace theater 10 Oswald Boateng (a man´s story) on the red carpet
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11 yosra on opening night 12 janeen mansour and habib al-attar 13 bassam koussa 14 lebleba
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coming soon:
5th
Abu Dhabi Film Festival October 13-22, 2011
film Submissions: open April 1 and close july 1
sanad 2011 Deadlines for applications for development & post-production grants: 1st cycle: February 15 / 2nd cycle: July 1
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