The Closing Ceremony for the third annual Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) was held at the Emirates Palace Hotel on Saturday evening. During the ceremony, celebrity guests including Naomi Watts, Orlando Bloom and Eva Mendes presented the 2009 Black Pearl Awards to the winners of MEIFF’s competitions.The awards were the culmination of 10 days of cinema, with 128 films screened. Seventeen Narrative Features, fourteen Documentary Features, twenty‐five Short Films, and ten Stu...

About the film: With the Competition feature The Time That Remains, Elia Suleiman is back on the Croisette two years after participating in the Out-of-Competition collective film, To Each his Own Cinema. This time the Palestinian director, who was on the Jury in 2006 and who received the Jury Prize for  Divine Intervention in 2002, brings to audiences a sort of autobiography in four chapters revolving around his family, from 1948 until recent times. Mixing his own memo...

WONG Kar Wai, President Chinese director Monica BELLUCCI - Italian actress Helena BONHAM CARTER - English actress Lucrecia MARTEL - Argentinean director ZHANG Ziyi - Chinese actress Samuel L. JACKSON - American actor Patrice LECONTE - French director Tim ROTH - English director, actor Elia SULEIMAN - Palestinian director Cinéfondation and short films Jury Andreï KONCHALOVSKY, President Russian director Sandrine BONNAIRE - French actress Daniel BRÜHL - German actor Souleymane CISSE - Mali...