This festival is still in its infancy when it comes to festivals as this festival is about to hold its second annual festival which will take place over 5 days at the end of October, 26th until 30th.
The line up does look very tasty with 4 world premiere’s, a host of fantastic movies feature and short length from the arabic world along with a exciting diverse World cinema programme too. The festival will open with Rachid Bouchareb’s action-thriller, Outside the Law. Set against the backdrop of the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII and Justin Chadwick’s The First Grader, the inspirational story about an elderly farmer in a Kenyan village who wants to enroll in a local school and learn to read, this movie will close the festival ,the film stars Naomie Harris and Oliver Litondo.
Other Highlights include Matt Reeves Let Me In, Stephen Frears Tamara Drewe and Ahmed Ahmed’s directorial debut with the documentary Just Like Us.
The Press release was quite lengthy so Ive split it up into 2 parts with the first part after the break and very shortly the second part which contains the info on the movies already annouced...