Al Ain Film Festival announces 4 new initiatives and 378 films this year.
Al Ain Film Festival has announced the launch of its third edition, Under the patronage of H.E. Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan member of the Executive Council, which will take place in Al Ain city, between 23rd – 27th of January 2021, under the slogan “Future Cinema”.
The Festival continues to support local and Gulf filmmakers by implementing new initiatives, various programs, distinctive shows and agreements, in the service of “the 7th Art”, to be the most prominent platform for discovering and presenting the best productions and talents of cinema in the region.
The Festival was announced during a press conference attended by Amer Salmeen Al Murry, Founder and Director General of the Festival, Hani Al Shaibani, Art Director, and Saeed Salmeen, who joined the Festival management to take over the task of Art Director of the program “Cinema Of The World.
The Third Edition of Al Ain Film Festival 2021 offers the audience of the “Golden Screen” a bouquet of distinctive events, which celebrate the most prominent filmmakers, of professionals and fresh young talents over a period of 5 days.
The impressive success of the First and Second Editions of the Festival, with the testimony of the audience as well as the critics, which enables the Founder and Director of the Festival, Amer Salmeen Al Murry, to achieve his ambition by including the name of “Al Ain” city, on the map of international festivals, and supporting the young Emirati talents.
A range of local and European films will be screened at the Bawadi Mall Cinemas free of charge all thru the festival week and beyond.
This year, Al Ain festival will be held under the umbrella of Abu Dhabi Festival, collaborating with the largest cultural festival in the emirate.
A new award has also been introduced for this year’s festival, the Fareed Ramadhan Award, named after the late Bahraini screenwriter, will be presented for the best screenplay for a long Gulf Film during this year’s festival.
The Festival manager revealed that in the new edition of “Al Ain Film Festival”, and as a part of “Honoring Artists’ Achievements” program, a group of art professionals will be honored, for their artistic career full of many achievements in the world of film industry, and their great contributions to the advancement of the “Seventh Art”.
They are Sheikha Alyazia Bint Nahyan, Emirati director Nujoom Al-Ghanem, and the late Bahraini writer and screenwriter Fareed Ramadhan.
He said: “Al Ain Film Festival raises the slogan “Future Cinema”, but we cannot forget those who have served this art for many years, and I am pleased that the 3rd Edition of the Festival will honor Emirati and Arab, who have made rich and important additions, throughout their artistic experience.
The festival starts with a private inaugural ceremony at the Qasr Al Muwaiji in Al Ain which is the historic birthplace of the Late Sheikh Zayed.
