This year brought 18 features and seven shorts, all presented with live musical accompaniment.
Peter Scarlet is the Executive Director of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
Most war films depend on the physical movement of bodies, bullets, and explosions to expose the horrors of combat. Not these.
Macho Like Me is a tender coming-of-age story and a necessary portrayal of all types of men on the verge of nervous breakdowns.
Every cinephile wants to experience something special, singular, and rare in their collective pursuit of all things cinema.
You couldn’t walk through this year’s Abu Dhabi Film Festival without bumping nose-first into politics.
Thank heaven for kinky accidents.
I bring my VIFF 2010 Dragons and Tigers coverage to a close with short takes on a few films.
The shadow of the 2008 Tangshan earthquake falls over Aftershock.
What we talk about when we talk about Palestine often isn’t the landmass.
In a Better World exposes conflicts between cultures, countries, classes, and cohorts, and then promptly resolves them all.
For Abbas Kiarostami, anything that can be filmed is cinema, and even anything that can be photographed.
What does it take to become an executioner?
Stars drop in and out with great frequency at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
You can assess a film festival’s attitude on cinema by its repertory choices.
Think Global, Act Local knocks you dizzy.
We came for the fourth annual Abu Dhabi Film Festival, with over 170 films, and like the city, the lineup extends multiculturally
The dominant impression from this year’s Views from the Avant-Garde is that video artists are still figuring out what to do.
Aaron Cutler, Kenji Fujishima, and Elise Nakhnikian share their thoughts via email about this year’s festival.
Here is a breezy, old-school horror romp which gets a surprising amount of mileage from the usual genre standbys.
Véréna Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki’s Foreign Parts is a lovely and detailed visual elegy.