Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF)

DIFF to honour Indian music composer AR Rahman

Sun, 2011-11-20 10:15 - By  

Dubai International Film Festival is set to honour Indian composer AR Rahman with its Lifetime Achievement Award. At 45, Rahman will be the youngest recipient of this prestigious award. Rahman is the winner of two Grammy Awards as well as two Academy Awards. His work for Slumdog Millionaire won two Academy Awards for Best Original Music Score and Best Original Song.


Dubai International Film Festival announces "MI4- Ghost Protocol" as opening film

Tue, 2011-11-15 08:27 - By  

'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' is set to premiere in Dubai at the city's international film festival. MI4 will be the first film screened at the event. The film's cast includes Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner and Paula Patton. The movie is sure to be a hit in the Emirates, as one of the movie's action sequences was filmed at Dubai's Burj Khalifa tower. 


8th Dubai International Film Festival receives more than 1,700 submissions from 106 countries

Tue, 2011-10-04 09:20 - By  
 
 
The eighth edition of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President & Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, has received more than 1,760 film entries from 106 nations for its

DIFF to take on distribution deal with Picturehouse

Sat, 2010-04-03 20:52 - By  

The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has partnered with Picturehouse, a dedicated art house theatre which recently opened in Dubai’s Reel Cinemas, to bring in more Arabic films to the UAE’s box offices, The National has reported. DIFF will bring to the big screen over the next year, between six and eight films that have been part of the film festival but have not been picked up by commercial distributors.


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