Dubai Film Festival Articles

Jehane Noujaim’s Control Room "You’re appalling, you son of a dog. May your house be destroyed!" one Egyptian woman yelled during a showing of Jehane Noujaim’s Control Room at the first Dubai International Film Festival. The woman’s anger was directed at U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who is shown describing scenes of grieving Iraqis and bombed-out buildings as having been "stage-managed." Control Room, which [...]