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Raising Sails
A butterfly spreads its wings, the wings flutter and emit a minute whirl of twirling air to soothe and aid a lost wandering wind looming across the barren deserts to its destined destination. The wind howls a grooving sound as it touches the sand and growls across warm dunes that slide across each other making the desert an everlasting eroding image. It is as if nature has its muse.
Moons pass by, the wind calms as it hits ray reflecting skyscrapers. Who would imagine that a butterfly's gentle push of flight would bring pleasure to a Bedouin or a Sailor's face drenching in sweat amidst an afternoon. All we see now is the future, the future of our voyage, the imagination of our arrival to our destination, and once we reach, we would cease to see a reality that sobers our imagination. Our only aspiration is to dive into the lustful sea of thought. Reality has always been arbitrary to what we see, what we capture and what becomes of it as it flickers to the masses.
The wind is blowing; the ribbons across our sails have been untied. It is time we sail with the skies, as the stars and our imagination lead us to our goals.
Welcome to the 8th Edition of the Emirates Film Competition.
This Edition, we have more than doubled our prizes. Filmmakers will be treated as filmmakers, not as students or professionals, what matters is the final product and of what the docking sail brings of news. Be it investigative journalism, or the abstruse imagination that was painted to flicker, bringing muse to those who see.
Let your imagination be your guiding stars, and let film be your waving sail, and we promise to make the wind howl. Let's ravish silver screens across the world with our vibrant souls.
Abdalla Bastaki
Director, Emirates Film Competition - Middle East International Film Festival |
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©2004 Emirates Film Competition - Cultural Foundation - Abu Dhabi |