Kaleem Aftab

Afia Nathaniel's Dukhtar (daughter) is a rare chase film that explores honour crimes, tribal courts and a thirst for revenge, following the journey of a mother who runs away with her 10-year-old daughter before the child is forcibly married off to an elderly tribal leader.

Ice hockey becomes a metaphor for the Cold War in this documentary about 14 years of sporting rivalry between the Americans and the Soviets.

When a 65-year-old singing social activist is charged with inciting a sewage worker to kill himself through one of his songs, defense attorney Vinay Vora (Vivek Gomber) argues against the charge before Judge Sadavarte (Pradeep Joshi), while public prosecutor Nutan (Geetanjali Kulkarni) relies on archaic laws to prove his guilt.

Pablo Escobar, who died in 1993, remains one of the most notorious drug dealers to have walked the earth. At the height of his powers, according to his brother, he was reportedly smuggling half a billion dollars worth of cocaine into the United States every day.

In one of his rare performances, Bill Murray stars as a babysitting curmudgeon in the touching comedy St Vincent.

Director Rob Marshall brings Stephen Sondheim's Broadway smash Into the Woods to the big screen with a star-studded cast.

Michael Keaton makes a comeback in film as a film action hero making a comeback on Broadway in Birdman.

After 9/11, when mosques started being attacked in Canada, Amber Fares wanted to better understand Arab culture so went to the Middle East.

The animated adaptation of The Prophet, the best-selling book of poetry by the Lebanese author and Renaissance man Kahlil Gibran, is divided into nine distinct parts, each by a different director, one of them the UAE’s Mohammed Saeed Harib.

Nine films make their debut at Abu Dhabi this year, eight of them from the Arab world.

Movies to feature in the ADFF that have already picked up awards at international film festivals.

The writer talks about travelling the world seeing films at various festivals.

Showing on Thursday, October 30, 6.45pm, Vox 5 and Friday, October 31, 5pm, Vox 2.

Showing on Tuesday, October 28, 9.30pm, Vox 5 and Thursday, October 30, 7pm, Vox 3.