United Arab Emirates Movies

Walid is searching for work. His family's well-being depends on it - wife, son, unborn child... Economic crisis is in full swing.

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

A young woman who is seemingly being prepared for an arranged marriage. The use of dramatic camera angles, changes of film exposure and camera focus,...

A walk to his apartment one night, becomes a panic run through those uncanny endless corridors.

A 60-year-old Christian farmer struggles to hold onto the land he has tilled for decades despite mounting tensions in Lebanon's picturesque Akkar...

Emirati women who were raised in very strict traditional families encounter difficulties in making their own decisions and pursuing their ambitions...

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...

There is a schism between the capacity to understanding and the necessity to simply observe. As one of the most famous ethno- and anthropologist in...

An eye on the life of a small community in Bahrain, its customs, and its connection to one of the strangest cultural phenomena, which is donkey...

A tutorial on how to resolve a fight.

The artist spent 24 hours with each of four women—Rogine, Waad, Hanin, and Zeina—in the cities where they now live: Zutphen, Oslo,...

100 Cans, the story is about land mines. It follows a Canadian/ Iraqi urban artist who goes to Yemen in midst of a heated conflict.

A meditation on masculinity, performance, representation and national identity. A collage of found footage, film excerpts and stock videos, its...

The women in a camp for displaced people in Darfur have to make and carry bricks while the men idle the day away. The film ends with a call for...

A series of moments and conversations from travelling.