MEIFF slots more pics
The Middle East Int'l. Film Fest's out-of-competition section, Festival of Festivals, will unspool Courtney Hunt's "Frozen River," Atom Egoyan's "Adoration," and Errol Morris' doc on Abu Ghraib "Standard Operating Procedure."Fest also announced an Enviromental program, slotting Irena Salina's "Flow: For the Love of Water" and Bader Ben Hirsi's "The Oryx: Freed Spirit of the Desert," a U.A.E. production.
Festival of Festival Films
14 Kilometres (Spain) directed by Gerardo Olivares
A Christmas Tale (France) directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Adoration (Canada) directed by Atom Egoyan
Amal (Canada) directed by Richie Mehta
Cherry Blossoms: Hanami (Germany) directed by Doris Dörrie
Disgrace (Australia, South Africa) directed by Steve Jacobs
Dunya and Desie (Netherlands) directed by Dana Nehustan
Football Undercover (Germany) directed by David Assmann and Ayat Najafi
Frozen River (USA) directed by Courtney Hunt
Let the Right One In (Sweden) directed by Tomas Alfredson
Maradona (Spain, France) directed by Emir Kusturica
Moscow, Belgium (Belgium) directed by Christophe van Rompaey
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (USA) directed by Gini Reticker
Quiet Chaos (Italy) directed by Antonello Grimaldi
Rumba (Belgium, France) directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy
Sleep Dealer (USA, Mexico) directed by Alex Rivera
Standard Operating Procedure (USA) directed by Errol Morris
The Prisoner (India) directed by Sunil Doshi
The Shaft (China) directed by Zhang Chi
The Smell of Apples (Iraq, Germany) directed by Ravin Asaf
The Wackness (USA) directed by Jonathan Levine
Two-Legged Horse (Iran) directed by Samira Makhmalbaf
Wild Field (Russia) directed by Mikhail Kalatozishvili
Written (South Korea) directed by Kim Byung Woo
Environmental Films
Flow: For the Love of Water (USA) directed by Irena Salina
Saving Luna (Canada) directed by Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit
Terra (USA) directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas
That Should Not Be (France) directed by Jean-Paul Jaud
The Oryx: Freed Spirit of the Desert (UAE) directed by Bader Ben Hirsi
Under Our Skin (USA) directed by Andy Abrahams Wilson
White Falcon, White Wolf (UK) directed by Fergus Beeley

Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com.













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