iPhone | iPad
Android
Huawei
From education to sustainability, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed laid down the goals in four main points
KT APPDOWNLOAD
Curtains up on Dubai International Film Festival
DUBAI — As the limousines roll up one by one, the stars of the international film world step out onto the red carpet. The music plays, spotlights sweep the sky and the celebrities pose briefly in front of the barrage of flashes. The international Press pack is here as well and in force.
Where are we? It's the Opening Evening Gala night of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) at the Madinat and nobody wants to miss this first evening. The arrivals are greeted with varying calls of approval from the Press pit and the public alike.
Morgan Freeman possibly gets one of the biggest shouts of approbation but the arrival of the voluptuous Hanan Turk, the Egyptian actress also causes the motordrives to spin. Hugh Dancy, Deepa Mehta, Adel Imam, Joseph Spaid; the list is an endless litany of thespians and directors, many of whom are household names. The most dramatic of the arrivals has got to be the Mongolian contingent from the film Kiran over Mongolia. As well as the magnificent robes, they carry a black eagle and a blistering white Siberian Gyrfalcon.
But this evening perhaps the main accolade should go to director Hany Abu Assad and actors Kais Nashef and Ali Suliman. In many ways this evening is theirs for the film being shown at the Madinat Arena belongs to them – Paradise Now. Dealing with the particularly sensitive subject of two young men who are told to carry out a suicide bombing, between them they have managed to produce a film that does not deify or criticise.
"When comedy attaches itself to tragedy you have a very magic moment," said Abu-Assad. "When fiction is touched by documentary, you have a magic moment. And that is what I always search for with my films."
Whether he has succeeded in his aim, this evening only his peers can judge.
"I do not always succeed but I try and that is important," he said. "We lesser mortals will have to wait another day before we can make a judgement."
Without a doubt this is a star-studded evening but there we have to leave them for their night of revelry.
More news from
The latest pledge would be additional to another $2 billion previously delivered by the United States
'Khan remains the moral leader of the PTI,' political analyst says
Images on Instagram also show Iniesta wearing an Arabic Bisht coat, a black robe with an embroidered gold border — a status garment among Arab men
Authorities renewed a reminder to Filipinos flying out to be vigilant against drug syndicates and refuse to carry any uninspected package from other people
The agreement is the first bilateral trade deal between the Gulf and South America
The integration of algorithms and real-world data resulted in watercolour-style artworks that depict iconic Emirati landmarks and symbols to honour sustainability within the nation
Around 320 of 760 flights planned for Saturday had been cancelled so far