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The festival that should not to be missed by film-lovers.
This year, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival takes place between 23rd October and 1st November 2014.
After the success of ‘CITY OF LIFE’ who awarded in 2010, the new locally produced film by Emirati Ali F. Mostafa ‘FROM A TO B’ will open the 2014 festival on the 23rd October 2014.
This new movie will show the life of three Western-educated Arab youths who travel 1,500 miles from Abu Dhabi to Beirut in memory of their deceased friend.
Film-lovers will also be delighted to learn that the Abu Dhabi Film Festival will celebrate the work of French Director François Truffaut who passed away 30 years ago in 1984.
Not only a film-maker and producer with more than 25 movies over a quarter of century, François Truffaut was a film critic for “Cahiers du Cinéma” and is one of the key figures of the French New Wave Cinema in the late 1950s.
For the first time in the Arab world, after the restoration of some of his films, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival powered by twofour 54 will screen some of François Truffaut’s legendary films in Abu Dhabi including:
THE 400 BLOWS – 1959
JULES AND JIM – 1962 with French actress Jeanne Moreau
THE WILD CHILD – 1970
DAY FOR NIGHT – 1973
SMALL CHANGE– 1976
THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN – 1977
THE LAST METRO – 1980 with Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve
The film festival will close on 1st November 2014 with a Disney’s animated film BIG HERO 6.
To book your tickets online, just visit www.abudhabifilmfestival.ae
2 locations for the screenings
VOX Cinema – Marina Mall
Emirates Palace
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