This year’s Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF) promises to be bigger and more glamorous than ever before – but also more user friendly with open air screenings at Fairmont Bab Al Bahr and easily accessible screenings around the capital.

Want to get your kids involved? Be at Marina Mall Saturday 15th October for ADFF’s new On Location initiative which aims to bring great cinema to Abu Dhabi’s youngest movie watchers. Walk the red carpet, see make-up demonstrations and meet special guests from 1pm to 6pm. Best of all, parents can relax while the kids enjoy the day’s activities under adult supervision.

Here’s what’s happening:

3pm to 3.30pm: Check out A Trip to the Moon in colour and other travels through time, colour and space. Created by French director Georges Méliès's in 1902, this 16 minute film is considered to be the first science fiction movie ever made and was fully restored to its original glory in 2010. Don’t speak French? Don’t worry – there’s no dialogue.

4pm to 5pm: What did your parents look like when they were kids? Before they became raisins, while they were still grapes? Find out in The Hoover – A Raisin Film, just one of a selection of animated short films for children aged six to 12 by Swedish director Johan Hagelback. Other films include Poison Arrow Frog, Panic Painter and The Missing Meatballs.

6.15pm to 8.30pm: Kids aged 12 and above will enjoy I Wish, a feature-length Japanese film about two brothers separated by divorce and distance who find hope of reunion in a new Japanese bullet train. Directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda, I Wish is also part of the festival’s Narrative Competition.

Find out more about all the films screening on family day – and throughout the festival – at www.abudhabifilmfestival.ae