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 2012: A Year of HeroesIt seems that this year will be a good one for all super-hero movie lovers. The line-up of blockbusters coming out of gigantic Hollywood studios is ... Sat, 21 Jan 2012 |  DIFF 2011 Roundup: WeekendThe Dubai International Film Festival in its 8th edition has kicked off to a roaring and star-studded start on Wednesday. Read below for triplew.m... Sat, 10 Dec 2011 |  Dubai Film Festival 2011The Dubai International Film Festival rounds out the Middle East film festival season with a bang over the next 10 days. This year’s version (the 8t... Wed, 07 Dec 2011 |  The Kingdom of LaughterThere is a new kind of creative revolution taking the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by storm – a revolution created in the midst of an ever-evolving dig... Sat, 19 Nov 2011 |
 The 2011 Doha Tribeca Film FestivalOne of the region’s emerging and most exciting film festivals takes place in Doha. The2011 Doha Tribeca Film Festival took place last week. Read bel... Tue, 01 Nov 2011 |  2011 ADFF HighlightsThe Abu Dhabi Film Festival is back in full swing this year with an excellent selection of films competing over eight different categories. The plat... Sun, 23 Oct 2011 |  2011 ADFF Day 8 Highlights + Day 9 PreviThe Abu Dhabi Film Festival is back in full swing this year with an excellent selection of films competing over eight different categories. The plat... Thu, 20 Oct 2011 |  2011 ADFF Day 8 PreviewThe Abu Dhabi Film Festival is back in full swing this year with an excellent selection of films competing over eight different categories. The plat... Wed, 19 Oct 2011 |
 2011 ADFF Day 7 PreviewThe Abu Dhabi Film Festival is back in full swing this year with an excellent selection of films competing over eight different categories. The plat... Tue, 18 Oct 2011 |  The 48 Hour Film ProjectAll film-makers and film-making enthusiasts are invited to join a one of a kind film-making project in the UAE. Read below for more details… The 48... Tue, 18 Oct 2011 |  2011 ADFF Day 6 PreviewThe Abu Dhabi film festival is back in full swing this year with an excellent selection of films competing over eight different categories. The plat... Mon, 17 Oct 2011 |  2011 ADFF Day 4 Highlights + Day 5 PreviThe Abu Dhabi Film Festival is back in full swing this year with an excellent selection of films competing over eight different categories. The plat... Sun, 16 Oct 2011 |
 2011 ADFF Day 1, 2 and 3 HighlightsThe Abu Dhabi film festival is back in full swing this year with an excellent selection of films competing over eight different categories. The plat... Sat, 15 Oct 2011 |  Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2011 – PreviewThe 5th edition of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival kicked off today, with a program boasting more than 80 films in eight different programs. Read below ... Thu, 13 Oct 2011 |  Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2011 – Bright LiBack for its 5th Edition, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF) starts this week in the UAE Capital, bigger, better and more accessible than ever befor... Sun, 09 Oct 2011 |  Festival Time: Middle East Film FestivalOnce again, it’s time to dust off your comfy trousers/pant-format clothes and get ready for a lot of sitting and enjoying the best of the world’s ci... Sat, 20 Aug 2011 |
 Around the Block: Mahmoud Kaabour IntervIn this film feature we take a glance at the career of one of the champions of the art of documentaries in the Middle East. Film-maker Mahmoud Kaabo... Mon, 15 Aug 2011 |  Film Realities : Interview With Nayla AlNayla Al Khaja has made a name for herself on the regional film-making scene with a string of impressive short films. Rasha Omer met up with her rec... Wed, 20 Jul 2011 |  'Shubbak': Modern Regional FilmsShubbak is the Arabic word for window - A window on Middle Eastern culture from the heart of London. Arab artists, filmmakers, musicians, intellectu... Tue, 05 Jul 2011 |  Losing our Creativity: The Dumbing-downThe well recognised need for both the music and film industries to ‘turn a dollar’ during the aftermath of global recession, rife online piracy and ... Tue, 07 Jun 2011 |
 A Cinematic Summer: Limited ReleasesIn our last film feature, we took a look at the most anticipated blockbusters coming out this summer. This time around we take a look at less ‘epic’... Tue, 07 Jun 2011 |  Attention Filmmakers! DIFF Call for EntrThe 8th cycle of Dubai International Film Festival will take place between the 7th and the 14th of December, 2011 – and your film can be competing a... Mon, 30 May 2011 |  A Cinematic Summer: BlockbustersSummertime is knocking on our doors – and that usually means a lot of different things for different people. Some of us will go on vacation, some wi... Sat, 28 May 2011 |  Gulf Film Festival – Fourth EditionStarting from the 14th of April the fourth edition of the Gulf Film Festival will get underway at Festival City in Dubai. The Festival is known for ... Wed, 13 Apr 2011 |
 Call for Entries: Abu Dhabi Film FestivaThe Abu Dhabi Film Festival has called for entries for its 5th edition this October. If you’ve made a short or feature-length film, get your submiss... Tue, 05 Apr 2011 |  Our Top 10 Films from 2010To conclude our end of the year lists – we decided to come up with one listing all of the movies we’ve enjoyed this year, and then trim it down to o... Thu, 30 Dec 2010 |  10 Documentaries from the Last 10 YearsEven though documentaries revolve around recording real life rather than make believe – they can be more fascinating than fictitious films, because ... Sat, 04 Dec 2010 |  Movie Releases We’re Looking Forward ToSo, we're a long way through 2010, but there's still a little bit more to come. Firstly, it's movies. Then it's music. But mainly, it's movies...we ... Tue, 09 Nov 2010 |
 All Hallows FlicksHalloween is the perfect excuse to do two things: dress up in ridiculous costumes and dust off your horror film collection or even look out for new ... Sat, 30 Oct 2010 |  Abu Dhabi Film Festival – In ReviewAs the Abu Dhabi Film Festival becomes a fading memory, triplew.me looks back at what we thought of the Festival, our highlight films and some stand... Tue, 26 Oct 2010 |  Abu Dhabi Film Festival - Days 4, 5 andThe Abu Dhabi Film Festival hit full stride on Days 4 and 5 with a number of stars in action, premieres pf great films and the announcement of Varie... Thu, 21 Oct 2010 |  Future PicturesThis month triplew.me is powered by AMD; a company known for its high-end computing components. They're also up to some exciting stuff in the... Tue, 19 Oct 2010 |
 ADFF Day 2 and 3 ReviewDays 2 and 3 of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, show-cased a great array of talent and ended superbly for us with François Ozon's French masterpiece Po... Sun, 17 Oct 2010 |  ADFF Day 1 Review + Day 2 HighlightsDay 1 of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, although technically beginning with the opening the previous night, was a great start to the Festival. Kickin... Fri, 15 Oct 2010 |  Making their Mark: Middle East film-makeAhead of the increasing interest in Arab film-makers and the Abu Dhabi Film Festival starting the Middle East film festival season off this week, tr... Sun, 10 Oct 2010 |  Abu Dhabi Film Festival - triplew.me picIt’s the Middle Eastern film festival season again, and triplew.me will bring as much coverage as we possibly can! In this article we take a look at... Wed, 29 Sep 2010 |
 When Good Music Happens to Bad MoviesRasha Omer, triplew.me's chief of all things new, takes a look back at some of the worst movies of all time, that somehow have been accompanied by t... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 |  The “Should Have Been a Classic” Film ReDuring a healthy debate on the merits of 3D movies here at triplew.me we got into an argument about films that are overlooked as 'classics' and why ... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 |
