Dubai Film Festival 2007

The 4th Dubai International Film Festival, which runs from December 9-16, will offer several world premieres, mostly in its Arabian Nights and Celebration of Indian Cinema sidebars.
Among the premieres are: the Arabian Nights sidebar gala, Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch’s Whatever Lola Wants, starring Carmen Lebbos and Laura Ramsey (right) as, respectively, a legendary Egyptian dancer and a New York dance student; Amin Matalqa’s Captain Abu Raed, starring Nadim Sawalha, and reportedly the first Jordanian feature in decades; and Borhane Alaouié’s Khalass, about four characters struggling to resume their lives in post-civil war Beirut.
The premieres in the Celebration of Indian Cinema sidebar are: Jag Mundhra’s political thriller Shoot-on-Sight, starring Naseeruddin Shah, which follows a Scotland Yard inspector investigating the [...]