About GFFThe Gulf Film Festival is an annual non-profit cultural event that aims to celebrate the highest standards of Gulf cinema. The Festival takes place in April in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Festival will host two competitions as part of its mission to encourage creativity and excellence among filmmakers from the region: 1- The Film Competition is open to professionals in the categories of Feature Films, Short Films and Documentaries. The GFF will also feature a competition for students in the short films and documentary formats. 2- The Script Competition is for Emirati short films only. In presenting the best of Arab cinema from the Gulf countries, the GFF will become a destination festival for the international film community to discover state of the art cinema in the region. The Festival will also present International Cinema in order to fulfill its primary objectives of developing the film culture in the Gulf and creating greater opportunities for the region’s filmmakers to screen their films and build on future film projects. |




