Dubai festival opens with Room and anti-extremist message.
The 12th edition of the Dubai International Film Festival kicked-off on Wednesday evening (Dec 9) on a defiantly anti-extremist note.
“We open Diff tonight amid stormy clouds and difficult times in a burning world of conflicting visions, reactionary ideologies and fear,” Diff chairman Abdulhamid Juma said in his opening remarks.
“In the name of cinema we gather to say no, no to all that is inhuman. Here in the United Arab Emirates we choose beauty and hope and resolve to fight extremism in all its shapes and forms. Long live cinema and let hope endure.”
His words follow a series of brutal terror attacks by extremists in Beirut, Paris, the Malian capital of Bamako and San Bernardino in California in the weeks before Diff.
Like the rest of the world, the UAE is also concerned about the rise of the so-called Islamic State (Isil) and other extremist groups in the...
The 12th edition of the Dubai International Film Festival kicked-off on Wednesday evening (Dec 9) on a defiantly anti-extremist note.
“We open Diff tonight amid stormy clouds and difficult times in a burning world of conflicting visions, reactionary ideologies and fear,” Diff chairman Abdulhamid Juma said in his opening remarks.
“In the name of cinema we gather to say no, no to all that is inhuman. Here in the United Arab Emirates we choose beauty and hope and resolve to fight extremism in all its shapes and forms. Long live cinema and let hope endure.”
His words follow a series of brutal terror attacks by extremists in Beirut, Paris, the Malian capital of Bamako and San Bernardino in California in the weeks before Diff.
Like the rest of the world, the UAE is also concerned about the rise of the so-called Islamic State (Isil) and other extremist groups in the...
- 12/10/2015
- ScreenDaily
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