{"id":148651,"date":"2017-11-21T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/dubai-intl-film-festival-reaches-its-14th-edition\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:34:42","slug":"dubai-intl-film-festival-reaches-its-14th-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/dubai-intl-film-festival-reaches-its-14th-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Int\u2019l Film Festival reaches its 14th edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; The 14th Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) will take place from December 6 to 13 at different venues across Dubai, including the Madinat Arena, the Souk Madinat Theater, Jumeirah Beach and theaters in the Mall of the Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will feature 121 films in 35 languages, as well as 24 different genres including comedy, documentary, allegory, animation, drama and fantasia. The DIFF will be divided into 8 Programmes, among them Cinema of the World, Arabian Nights, Gulf Muhr Short, Muhr Feature and Young Animators Award.<\/p>\n<p><<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/imagens\/cod_716010.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Representing Brazil, Carlos Saldanha&rsquo;s <em>Ferdinand<\/em> will be on show. A US-made adaptation based on the eponymous storybook classic by Munro Leaf, it tells the story of a mild-mannered, friendly bull that&rsquo;s picked for the bullfights in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Documentary <em>Naila and the Uprising<\/em> features Rio&rsquo;s Julia Bacha as scriptwriter and director. This international feature film combines interviews, animation and exclusive archival footage as it portrays the journey of Naila Ayesh, a young Gazan who played a pivotal role in the late 1980s uprising known as the First Intifada.<\/p>\n<p>International feature films will include Argentina&rsquo;s <em>Hunting Season<\/em>, directed by Natalia Garagiola; fantasy flick <em>The Shape of Water<\/em>, by the acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro; and the US-made documentary <em>Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken<\/em>, a sequel of Morgan Spurlock&rsquo;s hit.<\/p>\n<p>Children&rsquo;s movies include <em>Ana year Bruno<\/em>, a Mexican animation by director Carlos Carrera, based upon Daniel Emil&rsquo;s book. Emil also wrote the script. No productions shot in Brazil (or spoken in Portuguese) will be featured this year. <\/p>\n<p>The DIFF will offer 16 awards, including the Young Journalist Award and the Young Animators Award.<\/p>\n<p>Awards will also go to Best Muhr Fiction Feature, Best Muhr Non-Fiction Feature, Special Jury Prize Muhr Feature, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress. Short films will be eligible for two awards &ndash; Best Muhr Short and Special Jury Prize Muhr Gulf Short.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will also feature an audience choice award that can go to any feature film, except children&rsquo;s films and those not complying with general eligibility rules. <\/p>\n<p>To find out more or buy tickets, go to dubaifilmfest.com.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailers for <em>Naila and the Uprising<\/em> and <em>Ferdinand<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><!--[{![cemb_11_3245.jpg\" \/>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<!--[{![cemb_11_3246.jpg\" \/>\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-192481\">Press Release<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event will run from December 6 to 13 at a number of venues across the emirate, featuring 121 movies in 35 different languages and including two works by Brazilian filmmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2305,"featured_media":192481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-148651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture"},"wps_subtitle":"The event will run from December 6 to 13 at a number of venues across the emirate, featuring 121 movies in 35 different languages and including two works by Brazilian filmmakers.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}