Two Arab films are set to have their world premieres on the sixth day of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2014. In the Documentary Competition of the festival, Sanad-funded Egyptian documentary film Um Ghayeb (Mother of the Unborn), directed by Nadine Salib will make its debut alongside the Iraqi film The Silence of the Shepherd, […]
Two Arab films are set to have their world premieres on the sixth day of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2014. In the Documentary Competition of the festival, Sanad-funded Egyptian documentary film Um Ghayeb (Mother of the Unborn), directed by Nadine Salib will make its debut alongside the Iraqi film The Silence of the Shepherd, featuring in the New Horizons category of the festival.
Tonight ADFF will also present two award-winning, much acclaimed movies for the first time in the region. Black Coal, Thin Ice, which won the Golden Bear award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, is a dark Chinese detective thriller written and directed by Diao Yinan. Black Coal, Thin Ice is competing in the festivals Narrative Competition.
Winner of the Palme dOr at this years Cannes festival Winter Sleep, directed by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, will be screened at VOX 1 at 20:45. Set against the snowy panoramas of Anatolia, the film is an intimate character study of the protagonist that touches epic dimensions. The film delineates the deep chasms between the rich and poor as well as of the powerful and powerless in Turkey. Winter Sleep will be presented as part of the ADFF Showcase.
