Abu Dhabi Film Festival

Safinez Bousbia's El Gusto: Film as a Movement to Change Lives

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 05.17.2012

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E. Nina Rothe

A great film should change lives. While typically cinematic masterpieces are able to change the outlook of their audiences, in the case of Safinez Bousbia's documentary El Gusto, the film managed to dramatically change the existence of its subjects and its filmmaker.

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Politics and an Atheist's Pope: Nanni Moretti in the Spotlight, Part Two

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Abu Dhabi Film Festival, Italy, Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Silvio Berlusconi, We Have a Pope, Mario Monti, Il Caimano, Vatican, Culture News
E. Nina Rothe

We Have a Pope is a thought-provoking film attempting to shed light on the doubts that can be felt by a true leader.

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Why A Separation Will Win This Year's Best Foreign Language Oscar

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Asghar Farhadi, Abu Dhabi Film Festival, Berlinale, A Separation, Academy Awards, Adff, Sony Pictures Classics, Culture News
E. Nina Rothe

A Separation is not the story of a couple falling out of love, but a commentary on a society that has already lost its direction, and only lives in the opposing, inhuman corners of right and wrong.

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Ridha Behi's Always Brando at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival: Spellbinding

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Ziad Hamzeh, Always Brando, Marlon Brando, Ridha Behi, Tiff, Adff, Tunisia, Abu Dhabi Film Festival, Dtff, Omar Sharif, Shoreline Entertainment, Culture News
E. Nina Rothe

Some films can infuse us with their magic even before we have a chance to watch them. Personally, it may be an image, the mystery of its title or a particular theme which will create in this cinema lover a craving only satiated by watching the film.

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ADFF 2011: We Need to Talk About Kevin, Always Brando and Nanni Moretti's Pope

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 12.27.2011

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E. Nina Rothe

I constantly crave a place where great world cinema plays nearly uninterrupted all day long and a great buffet of international food is served. I ended up finding it all in Abu Dhabi, during the fifth annual Abu Dhabi Film Festival.

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Fair Game in the Middle East

Doug Liman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Doug Liman

The night we screen Fair Game, the questions are tough and pointed: why we cast an Egyptian actor and not an Iraqi one; the film might bring people to justice in America, but what about the damage we caused in Iraq?

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