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The television version of Olivier Assayas' film, which runs five and a half hours, premiered at Cannes, he added.
"Carlos the Jackal," whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is notorious for the takeover of OPEC headquarters in Vienna in 1975, where 11 people were seized. The hostages were eventually transported to Algiers and freed.
After continuing his career in revolutionary politics and violence, he was kidnapped in Sudan in 1994 and sentenced in France to life imprisonment three years later.
Other films at the festival will "range from a pair of impressive new films from Iran -- 'Orion' by Zamani Esmati and 'Gesher' by Vahid Vakilifar -- to two NYC-based films, 'Furious Force of Rhymes' by Joshua Atesh Litle and 'Bill Cunningham New York' by Richard Press," Scarlet said.
"There's an equally impressive line-up of films by new talents from Egypt, France, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and the UAE," he said.
This will be the fourth annual festival in Abu Dhabi, where it was formerly known as the Middle East International Film Festival.
Scarlet said the festival received over 2,000 submissions this year, double that from the year before. But he added that the number of "good films" from the Arab world was less than in the past.
The festival offers 100,000-dollar prizes for a number of categories, the statement says.
These include Best New Narrative Film, Best New Narrative Film from the Arab World, Best New Documentary, Best New Documentary from the Arab World, Best Documentary, Best Documentary from or about the Arab World, Best Narrative Film and Best Narrative Film from the Arab World.
Fostering cultural understanding is a main aim of the festival, Eissa Saif Rashed al-Mazrouei, director of special projects at the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, said in the statement.
"Setting up channels of cultural exchange and dialogue is an important part of our ambition, as well as creating an interactive atmosphere for Emirati and international film makers," Mazrouei said.
"The festival is of great importance in establishing these links, because unless we open our doors to other cultures, there is no opportunity for us to develop culturally," he said.
The festival opens on Thursday, October 14 and lasts until Saturday, October 23.
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"Carlos the Jackal," whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is notorious for the takeover of OPEC headquarters in Vienna in 1975, where 11 people were seized. The hostages were eventually transported to Algiers and freed.
After continuing his career in revolutionary politics and violence, he was kidnapped in Sudan in 1994 and sentenced in France to life imprisonment three years later.
Other films at the festival will "range from a pair of impressive new films from Iran -- 'Orion' by Zamani Esmati and 'Gesher' by Vahid Vakilifar -- to two NYC-based films, 'Furious Force of Rhymes' by Joshua Atesh Litle and 'Bill Cunningham New York' by Richard Press," Scarlet said.
"There's an equally impressive line-up of films by new talents from Egypt, France, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and the UAE," he said.
This will be the fourth annual festival in Abu Dhabi, where it was formerly known as the Middle East International Film Festival.
Scarlet said the festival received over 2,000 submissions this year, double that from the year before. But he added that the number of "good films" from the Arab world was less than in the past.
The festival offers 100,000-dollar prizes for a number of categories, the statement says.
These include Best New Narrative Film, Best New Narrative Film from the Arab World, Best New Documentary, Best New Documentary from the Arab World, Best Documentary, Best Documentary from or about the Arab World, Best Narrative Film and Best Narrative Film from the Arab World.
Fostering cultural understanding is a main aim of the festival, Eissa Saif Rashed al-Mazrouei, director of special projects at the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, said in the statement.
"Setting up channels of cultural exchange and dialogue is an important part of our ambition, as well as creating an interactive atmosphere for Emirati and international film makers," Mazrouei said.
"The festival is of great importance in establishing these links, because unless we open our doors to other cultures, there is no opportunity for us to develop culturally," he said.
The festival opens on Thursday, October 14 and lasts until Saturday, October 23.
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