United Arab Emirates Movies

Farid travelled from the easternmost tip of the Arabian Peninsula to the Iranian island of Qeshm to film the annual celebration of Nowruz Sayadeen...

An elderly man enters a photo studio and asks the photographer for a curious service. The reaction of the latter will determine their perception of...

The Akram Tree is a journey through the personal and professional world of the british-bangladeshi coreographer and dancer Akram Khan. My...

Samuel, a young Filipino expatriate in Dubai, submerged between his financial obligations and bizarre roommate that turned his life into a sinister...

Through a closed study of the notorious, now derelict district of Karantina, Sector Zero uses Karantina’s history as a metaphor for...

CRISIS is a mystery drama short film that follows the investigation into the death of a man.

Stricken with an undisclosed illness, the narrator of this reflexive work draws evocative parallels between the darkened hulls of an industrial ocean...

Follow a Muslim boy through the first day of Ramadan, where he attempts to reconcile the puzzling issues in the world today.

Zheng Bo collaborates with seven Pakistani farmers living and working on a date palm farm outside Dubai to make a dance. The project celebrates the...

A behind the scenes look of the beauty, training and competition of the most beautiful horses in the world.

"Don't Get Too Comfortable" is a heartfelt introspective letter to my deceased grandfather. The letter questions the continuous pattern of movement...

A young working girl, Ayesha, moves in to another apartment to reduce her travel time and to focus on work. Instead, her life takes a dramatic turn...

Aging couple Bahiya and Mahmoud have fallen into a reliable routine of bickering and making one another miserable until the morning that Mahmoud...

Five children from around the world charged by the earth to share their stories of climate solutions and sustainable designs from their home regions....

A documentary profiling the work and life of Hassan Sharif in the Gulf’s art community before his death in 2016.

MOONDOG is a docufiction about the disappearance of Egyptian filmmaker Khairy Beshara, his subsequent transformation into a dog, and his son's...

A documentary following an ancient Jinn called Mother of Fire and her ruminations on the history of the UAE, colonial meddling and contemporary...

The drama of a mother and her children planning a desperate escape from a scary, hungry beast that preys on them is captured in this short animation...

In Tsumikh, Makhacheva brings herself and her own biography to the centre-stage. She interrogates the fraught relationship between personal and...