Sharjah Film Platform is back, spotlighting independent cinema, documentary filmmaking and moving image works that play on new approaches to film and art. The fifth edition of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual film festival isn’t overcrowded; small but perfectly formed just [ … ]
Now here’s an interesting game: list the most significant German film directors of the 1970s on. Now restrict it to those directors who have more than 60 feature films to their name, including a Nicholas Cage vehicle and 31 full-length [ … ]
SIFF – the Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth – is a magpie favourite among highly-targeted UAE festivals, thanks partly to its openness in selection but mostly because of the unselfconscious enthusiasm of the audiences. The ninth SIFF [ … ]
Interested in exploring the depths of sounds and your relationship to it? Curious about soothing, jarring or extinct sounds? A new documentary (in live film format) by Oscar-nominated director Sam Green is coming to NYUAD on 9-10 March that you [ … ]
After two years of Covid-induced postponement, Sikka is back … and different. Some things remain the same, of course, including the location. The Festival again takes over Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood for its 10th edition, running from 15 – 24 [ … ]
The Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival – which opens on Friday 4 February and runs to 31 March – has come a long way in 10 years, to the point where it’s now becoming established as a solid contributor [ … ]
Scandar Copti is a Palestinian filmmaker and currently NYUAD’s Associate of Arts Professor of Film. He has several film projects to his name, and his debut full-length feature Ajami (2009) won several festival awards as well as a Caméra d’Or [ … ]
Sharjah Film Platform 4 has just finished, and at the closing ceremony the award winners were announced along with the big prize for the winner of SFP’s Pitching Forum. SFP4 screened more than 50 films, including those submitted for juried [ … ]
The Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival is back for its ninth annual edition, running 6 February to 3 April at three RAK locations and carrying the theme of Hope. As Festival Director Suqrat bin Bisher put it: “As we [ … ]
It’s a tough time to be running any kind of mass participation event, but at a time when most film festivals have postponed or cancelled Sharjah Art Foundation did pretty well with its hybrid Sharjah Film Platform 3 – a [ … ]
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