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Film stars 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days actor Vlad Ivanov.

Screen can reveal the first trailer for Bálint Kenyeres’ feature debut Hier (Tegnap), which has its world premiere at the Locarno Festival (Aug 1-11).

Hungarian director Kenyeres won a European Film Award with his short film Before Dawn which premiered at Cannes in 2005. His next short The History Of Aviation debuted in Directors’ Fortnight in 2009.

Hier stars Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov, whose roles include Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or-winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days, Toni Erdmann and László Nemes’ Sunset.

He plays the owner of a building company who must travel to North Africa for work.

Alec Guinness: Before Obi-Wan Kenobi, there were the eight D’Ascoyne family members (photo: Alec Guiness, Dennis Price in ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’) (See previous post: “Alec Guinness Movies: Pre-Star Wars Career.”) TCM won’t be showing The Bridge on the River Kwai on Alec Guinness day, though obviously not because the cable network programmers believe that one four-hour David Lean epic per day should be enough. After all, prior to Lawrence of Arabia TCM will be presenting the three-and-a-half-hour-long Doctor Zhivago (1965), a great-looking but never-ending romantic drama in which Guinness — quite poorly — plays a Kgb official. He’s slightly less miscast as a mere Englishman — one much too young for the then 32-year-old actor — in Lean’s Great Expectations (1946), a movie that fully belongs to boy-loving (in a chaste, fatherly manner) fugitive Finlay Currie. And finally, make sure to watch Robert Hamer’s dark comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets...

After hosting the world premiere of the new "Mission Impossible" movie as well as a wide variety of films from Africa, Asia and the Arab world, the Dubai International Film Festival ended today with a closing ceremony that announced Palestinian film "Habibi Rasak Kharban" by Susan Youssef as the fest's winner of the Fipresci award and best Arab feature award. "Habibi"is a story of forbidden love and is the first feature set in Gaza in over 15 years. It's also the only Palestinian film release of 2011. A complete list of the fest's winners is below: Lifetime Achievement Awards: Gamil Ratib A. Rahman Werner Herzog The du People’s Choice Award: Als Der Weihnachtsmann Vom Himmel Fiel (When Santa Fell To Earth) by Oliver Dieckmann – Germany The annual ‘Prize of the International Critics’ for Arab films from the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci), the...

The 8th Dubai International Film Festival conferred the Lifetime Achievement award on Indian music maestro Ar Rahman on December 7.

Every year the festival honors the achievement of 3 legends who are chosen from the Arab, Africa- Asia and western countries. Filmmaker Werner Herzog and Actor Gamil Ratib are the two other personalities to have received the award this year.

Dil se by Mani Ratnam and Lagaan by Ashutosh Gowariker will be screened at the festival in honour of Rahman.

Rahman won two Oscars – for Best Original Music Score and Best Original Song for Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire in 2009. His score for Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours earned Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations.

Dubai International Film Festival is being held from December 7-14, 2011.