The 2nd Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) gets underway on the 11th of December so mark your calendars. The DIFF is retaining its theme of ‘Bridging Cultures, Meeting Minds’. Why re-invent the wheel when it worked so well last year.

The inaugural festival highlighted 76 films (and I did not get a chance to see a single one of them as my procrastination resulted in my missing out on the tickets). Apparently, 100 international celebrities attended the festival, which I am sad to say did not include me (shame!) Hollywood celebrities included the impeccable Morgan Freeman, the beautiful Sarah Michelle Gellar (on sabbatical from her Vampire Slaying activities), the handsome Orlando Bloom (of the