This month promises to be a great one for lovers of European cinema as the debut European Film Screenings programme brings the best movies from across the continent to Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
The week-long event, which begins on September 18 in the capital and the following day in Dubai, is something of a first. It is being led by the Italian Embassy in the UAE and an EU delegation to the UAE and presented in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF), the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) and 12 other European embassies.
This means that film buffs can look forward to movies from Italy, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria.
The programme will open with the Italian director Poalo Sorrentino’s La Grande Belleza, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Academy Awards.
It also features highlights such as Julien Temple’s cut-and-paste homage to the English capital London: The Modern Babylon; Andrzej Wajda’s biopic about Lech Walesa, the Polish politician and human-rights activist, Walesa: Man of Hope; and a personal favourite, Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye Lenin!
Meanwhile, ADFF and DIFF will select some of the best Emirati shorts from their extensive archives, to screen in Abu Dhabi and Dubai alongside each day’s European movies.
Original article by Chris Newbould
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