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David O. Russell's 'American Hustle' Closes Dubai Film Festival The director, along with producer Charles Roven, attended the film's debut festival appearance as the 10th edition of the event ends after ten days of galas in the UAE metropolis.DUBAI -- David O. Russell's American Hustle, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis CK and Robert De Niro, brought down the curtains on this year's Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), provoking cheers and hysterics from the audience. The red carpet missed the footprints of the star-studded cast as the Oscar race hopeful continues its campaign for profile in Hollywood and the U.S, and key cast are away shooting. Russell and producer Charles Roven were the film's star guests for the night. The movie, produced by Megan Ellison's Annapurna and Charles Roven's Atlas, details the story of a brilliant con man (Bale) who, along with his equally cunning British partner and lover (Adams), is forced to work for a wild, unhinged FBI agent (Cooper). The story features a fake sheikh from Dubai's neighboring city of Abu Dhabi. FILM REVIEW: American Hustle Italia Films will release the Sony Pictures-backed film in the Middle East. The 10th edition of DIFF, held under the patronage of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE vice president and prime minister and ruler of Dubai, celebrated being the first festival to screen American Hustle. It had been billed by DIFF artistic director Masoud Amralla Al Ali as a fitting high note to end the event. "Dubai is one of the first audiences in the world to see this film and this is its very first festival," Russell told the crowd as he introduced the film. "All the cast send their regards to Dubai." This year's festival lacked the star power that many media and regulars had hoped for to help trumpet the shindig that has established itself as the main event in the Middle East and one of the most important showcases for Arab cinema on the calendar. A mix of production scheduling for many of the stars -- Bale is shooting Ridley Scott's Exodus in Spain, Lawrence is filming the next installments of Hunger Games and Cooper is in action in Hawaii for Cameron Crowe's untitled project -- and Oscar campaign season being in full swing played into the absence of other castmembers. But the previous nine days has seen a smattering of glitz and glamor from Hollywood and beyond including Cate Blanchett, Martin Sheen, Rooney Mara and Mark Ruffalo. Mara and Ruffalo landed in the Middle Eastern metropolis to lend their support to the event's annual charity gala dinner, "One Night To Change Lives," which raised over $1 million for Syria in partnership with Oxfam. And it was a case of better late than never for the media with the arrival of Naomi Harris and Lindiwe Matshikiza to support the red carpet screening of Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom after a request from the filmmakers led to the cancellation of all media activities scheduled ahead of the gala screening Tuesday (Dec. 10). As the movie's gala red carpet screening went ahead as planned the gala's walkway was closed to all photographers and videographers. Another attendee was Irish director Jim Sheridan, who headed up the festival's Muhr Arab Feature jury and is planning to launch his own Arab film festival in Dubai next April. "I got a good insight into the Arab world through the movies," the six-time Academy Award nominated director said. "The immersion into so many movies so quickly is like a political course you couldn't get by reading any number of papers." Speaking about the festival, DIFF chairman Abdulhamid Juma said: "The sense of community this year was palpable. After ten years, we are seeing recurrent visitors, both film professionals and cinema lovers, from the region and beyond. This year we celebrated the gains that have been made in Arab cinema in the past decade, the result of years of work from our team to discover, nurture and promote talent from th http://www.wochit.com