Festival venues include the Foundation’s open-air Mirage City Cinema, the iconic Flying Saucer and the big screens in Cinemacity IMAX, Zero 6 Mall.
The third edition of the annual Sharjah Film Platform (SFP3), organised by Sharjah Art Foundation, will open tomorrow and will go on until November 21. The film festival features over 60 short and feature-length films in the narrative, documentary and experimental categories by both local and international filmmakers.
Screening in cinemas and online, the festival films will be open to audiences anywhere in the world. A public programme of online talks and discussions exploring current issues in the film industry as well as a range of workshops suitable for children and adults is also running throughout the festival period.
Festival venues include the Foundation’s open-air Mirage City Cinema, the iconic Flying Saucer and the big screens in Cinemacity IMAX, Zero 6 Mall.
The opening programme at 8:00 pm on November 14, 2020 features the world premiere of the 2020 Short Film Production Grant winner Once Upon a Revolution (2020), directed by Soha Shukayr, and special previews of the two other grant recipients: Hajja (2021), directed by Nadira Amrani, and She Who Saw the Deep (2021), directed by Pelin Tan and Anton Vidokle.
Screening on the same evening at 9:30 pm is the Middle East premiere of Epicentro (2020) from Academy Award-nominated director Hubert Sauper. The feature-length documentary was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Tickets for SFP3 are 20 AED per cinema screening and 10 AED per online screening. Viewers can also buy an all-access festival pass for 50 AED.
The screening of Once Upon a Revolution (2020) on opening night is free and open to all. However, advanced booking is required.
