Category Archives: Dubai International Film Festival

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Las Acacias

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Faizan Rashid

Las Acacias Pablo Giorgelli | Argentina | 2011 84 min Las Acacias is a film you can’t fault for its simplicity. A road trip movie about a trucker who helps transport a woman and her baby daughter from Paraguay to Argentina, … Continue reading →

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Day 5 of the 2011 Dubai International Film Festival

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Shariq Madani

Shariq Madani at DIFF 2011 Daily Festival Report: 12th December 2011 (Day #5) Day 5 peaked in a way I could not have expected. It featured not one, but two stellar movies, one of which is easily the best movie … Continue reading →

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This Is Not a Film

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Faizan Rashid

This Is Not a Film Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb | Iran | 2011 100 min This Is Not a Film is both an honest title and an apt description of what directors Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb come up with … Continue reading →

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Good Bye

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Faizan Rashid

Good Bye Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran | 2011 100 min A lawyer barred from practicing and expecting a child, goes through enormous government bureaucracy in her quest to obtain a visa to leave Iran. Under the formalist direction of Mohammad … Continue reading →

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