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ABU DHABI
Oct. 13-22
This year, Abu Dhabi commemorates the centenary of Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, who in addition to being his country’s most renowned author, wrote more than 25 original screenplays for helmers such as Youssef Chahine, Salah Abouseif and Tawfik Saleh, while in the 1990s, two of his novels were adapted by Mexican directors Arturo Ripstein (“The Beginning and the End”) and Jorge Fons (“Midaq Alley”). Expect most of his filmography to screen. Meanwhile, the fest’s expansion into the production sector continues with the second year of the Sanad fund for filmmakers from the Arab world. This time, 11 feature-length narrative and documentary films, including projects from such filmmakers as Jocelyne Saab of Lebanon and Mauritania’s Abderrahmane Sissako, have been selected to share the $500,000 pool of development and post-production funding.

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