Opening of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival

Opened on Thursday night the fifth session of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival with the participation of 179 films from 42 countries, including 25 films in the presentation of the first, while competing for about 128 films on the Black Pearl Awards which is the highestvalue of film festivals.

The program includes a film festival View 53 long and 75 short films in competition,chosen from among more than 2500 participants from more than one hundred countriesincluding 21 Arab films.

Films
And participate in a competition of feature films this year, 16 films from 11 countriescompete for the Black Pearl Awards in the categories of Best Feature Film Award,Special Jury, and best director, best producer, best actor, best actress of the Arab world.

For the second time the prospects of new competition be held that focus on the work ofdirectors directorial experiences in the first and second parts of the world, and this sessioninclude competition 12 films from 11 countries.
The number of films competing in a competition feature-length documentaries 15 films from 11 countries, in addition to the short film competition, which competes with 31 short films from 23 countries and the recently introduced two new awards allotted to producers of short films.
NewFor the first time regulates the festival this year, the contest "our world" and compete including the film seeks to promote public awareness of environmental issues is vital and are competing for the prize of $ 15 thousand dollars a dozen films from seven countries as well as "Prize People's Choice," which are being contested by 25 films for awards a value of fifty thousand dollars.
The festival celebrates this year's two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature are Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth, as well as the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz percent anniversary of his birth.
And displays the festival within the festival Bmahfoz eight films are important to him, in addition to the publication of a book about Mahfouz, cinema, movie posters, an exhibition drawn on its work, as well as organizing a round table to discuss the headlines concerning its relationship with cinema.
The festival continues until 22 of October / November to provide the current number of events organized and adhered to, including "Family Day" and his "self-maps" which explores the heritage is not known for experimental cinema in the Arab world.
Arab participationAnd limited participation in the competition of feature films on the film and one of Tunisia and Morocco Pfilim, absent while countries such as Egypt, Syria and Lebanon.
Egypt participates in three films, while I attended both Palestine and Lebanon Pfilim, Kraushaar, both Syria and Iraq, Algeria and one film only.
He denied the Executive Director of the Festival, Peter Scarlet Conference which was heldon the eve of the launch of the festival events to be witnessed by some Arab countriesbehind the weakness of Arab participation.

Scarlett and semi-film production in agricultural crops, which varies from year to year,pointing out that the timing of the Festival of Abu Dhabi as the festivals at the beginning ofseasons affects his share of movies.

The other hand, praised the Maghreb Scarlett attend the festival this year, saying that theMoroccan cinema and now lives the glow and that its presence is a positive indicator.

And saw the red carpet during the opening night, the passage of many Arab and foreign artists including Mahmoud Abdul-Aziz and Bushra and Reham Abdul Ghafoor and KhaledAbul-Naga and the following upper and French actress Marianne Dnekor and film directorMauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako and Dr. Habib Ghuloom and actress Haifa Hussein.


Source: Al Jazeera