The film producer Image Nation is looking forward to a bumper ADFF this year.
The Image Nation-produced From A to B, the director Ali F Mostafa's much-anticipated follow-up to 2009's City of Life, will get its world premiere as the festival's opening-night film, but there's no let-up for the Image Nation team after that.
A further three Image Nation productions or co-productions will also have premieres at this year’s festival.
Hana Makki's documentary As One, which follows the journey of 10 autistic children as they take part in a musical programme, will debut on October 25 at a glittering red-carpet event for its young stars.
Two Hyde Park/Image Nation Entertainment co-productions will have their regional premieres at the festival. The critically acclaimed 99 Homes, directed by Ramin Bahrani and starring Andrew Garfield (Spider-Man) and Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire), tells the story of a father struggling to reclaim the home his family was evicted from.
And Midnight Sun is a live-action family film following a young boy who attempts to reunite an abandoned polar-bear cub with its mother.
Mohamed Al Mubarak, the chairman of Image Nation – a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media, the publisher and owner of The National – said: "To have four premieres at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival – two global and two regional – is a huge achievement.
“It reflects the amount of talent and hard work, not just here at Image Nation, but in our various partner companies and in the UAE as a whole.”
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