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Shadows @ Abu Dhabi A world of stories in the Emirates capital Rich Cline was on the Fipresci Jury in 2014
8th Abu Dhabi Film Festival 23 OCTOBER - 1 NOVEMBER 2014 Opening film: FROM A TO B Closing film: BIG HERO 6 SHADOWS ADFF BLOG: OPENING NIGHT 25 OCT 27 OCT 29 OCT 31 OCT CLOSING NIGHT	2 0 1 4   F I L M S
	N A R R A T I V E: Black Pearl: LEVIATHAN Jury Award: TEST Actor: Alexey Serebryakov (LEVIATHAN) Actress: Marie Bonnevie (A SECOND CHANCE) Arab Film: MEMORIES ON STONE Arab Director: Ghassan Salhab (THE VALLEY) Audience Choice: THE SALT OF THE EARTH Fipresci - Narrative: THEEB Fipresci - Doc: UM GAYEB Netpac Award: IRAQI ODYSSEY Child Protection Award: IN HER PLACE Child Protection - Screenplay: Kaan Mujdeci (SIVAS)	N E W   H O R I Z O N S: Black Pearl: THE WONDERS Jury Award: STATIONS OF THE CROSS Actor: Dogan Izci (SIVAS) Actress: Yoon Da-kyung (IN HER PLACE) Arab Film: THEEB Arab Director: Lyes Salem (THE MAN FROM ORAM) D O C U M E N T A R Y: Black Pearl: VIRUNGA Jury Award: NEXT GOAL WINS Arab Doc: THE WANTED 18 Arab Director: YASMIN FEDDA (QUEENS OF SYRIA) Special Mention: RETURN TO HOMS
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	'71 (Demange, UK) 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH (Pollard/Forsyth, UK) 99 HOMES (Bahrani, US) ART AND CRAFT (Cullman/Grausman, US) BEARS (Fothergill/Scholey, UK) BEHAVIOR (Daranas, Cub) BIG HERO 6 (Hall/Williams, US) BLACK COAL, THIN ICE (Diao, Chn) CAIN'S CHILDREN (Gero, Hun) CAMP X-RAY (Sattler, US) THE CONNECTION (Jimenez, Fr) CORN ISLAND (Ovashvili, Geo) DAMNATION (Knight/Rummel, US) DIFRET (Mehari, Eth) DIOR AND I (Tcheng, Fr) THE DROP (Roskam, US) ECHO OF THE MOUNTAIN (Echevarria, Mex) EL OTT (El-Batout, Egy) - WP ENERGIZED (Canaval, Aut) ENTANGLED (Lee, Kor) EXIT (Chienn, Tai) FEVERS (Ayouch, Mor) FISH (Zaim, Tur) FOOD CHAINS (Rawal, US) FROM A TO B (Mostafa, UAE) - WP A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (Amirpour, US) THE GREAT INVISIBLE (Brown, US) HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong, Kor) THE HOMESMAN (Jones, Fr) HOPE (Lojkine, Fr) HUNGRY HEARTS (Costanzo, It) IMPERIAL DREAMS (Vitthal, US) IN HER PLACE (Shin, Kor) IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE (Moland, Nor) IRAQI ODYSSEY (Samir, Irq) LA SAPIENZA (Green, Fr) LABOUR OF LOVE (Sengupta, Ind) LABYRINTHUS (Boswell, Bel) THE LAST HAMMER BLOW (Delaporte, Fr) LEVIATHAN (Zvyagintsev, Rus) THE LOOK OF SILENCE (Oppenheimer, Den) MACONDO (Mortezai, Aut) MAGICAL GIRL (Vermut, Sp) THE MAN FROM ORAN (Salem, Alg)	MARMATO (Grieco, Col) MEMORIES ON STONE (Korki, Irq) MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN (Reitman, US) MIDNIGHT SUN (Spottiswoode, US) MISS JULIE (Ullmann, Nor) MY OLD LADY (Horovitz, UK) NATIONAL DIPLOMA (Hamadi, Con) NEXT GOAL WINS (Brett/Jamison, UK) NO ONE'S CHILD (Rsumovic, Ser) NOBI: FIRES ON THE PLAIN (Tsukamoto, Jpn) A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE (Andersson, Swe) PIRATES OF SALE (Addou/Rogers, Mor) - WP POINT AND SHOOT (Curry, US) QUEENS OF SYRIA (Fedda, Jor) - World Premiere REFUGIADO (Lerman, Arg) RETURN TO HOMS (Derki, Syr) RETURN TO ITHACA (Cantet, Cub) THE RIOT CLUB (Scherfig, UK) THE SALT OF THE EARTH (Wenders/Salgado, Fr) A SECOND CHANCE (Bier, Den) THE SILENCE OF THE SHEPHERD (Mushatat, Irq) - WP SIVAS (Mujdeci, Tur) SOLD (Brown, US) SOUNDS OF THE SEA (Al Ghanem, UAE) - WP STATIONS OF THE CROSS (Bruggemann, Ger) TALES (Banietemad, Irn) TEST (Kott, Rus) THEEB (Abu Nowar, Jor) TIMBUKTU (Sissako, Mrt) TRASH (Daldry, UK) TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Dardenne/Dardenne, Bel) TWO MEN IN TOWN (Bouchareb, Fr) UM GHAYEB: MOTHER OF THE UNBORN (Salib, Egy) - WP THE VALLEY (Salhab, Leb) VIRUNGA (Von Einsiedel, UK) THE WANTED 18 (Cowan/Shomali, Pal) WHIPLASH (Chazelle, US) WINTER SLEEP (Ceylan, Tur) THE WONDERS (Rohrwacher, It) YOUNG TIGER (Vial, Fr) * review coming soon
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