DUBAI: The Dubai International Film Festival is set to return on Dec. 8, 2027, with a special Middle East edition focused on Arab cinema. Mona Ghanem Al-Marri, vice chairperson and managing director of the Dubai Media Council and chairperson of the Arab Media Summit’s Organizing Committee, announced that the festival’s first edition in its new format — coming 10 years after its original run came to a close — will spotlight films and filmmakers from across the region. It will provide directors, p
