United Arab Emirates Movies

“Practical Dreams” is an experimental documentary which examines the existential outlook on life of Antony, a long-time UAE resident who...

A tutorial on how to resolve a fight.

Feeling stuck in his mundane life & the world collapsing around him, Zain decides to take matters into his own hands to craft an escape plan.

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.

As a fisherman finds a sea mine and tries to disable it, things take a turn when he gets arrested, and he encounters many surprises.

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 team of young explorers venture into the vast Empty Quarter

A series of moments and conversations from travelling.

Unfolding against the backdrop of a turbulent political climate, the finest rappers in the Arab-speaking world gather in Beirut, hoping to be crowned...

Short animated documentary by Rola Shamas.

"The Horseman Story" is a feature documentary directed and produced by Ksenia Giorno, telling the life story of a famous Emirati Horse master Tariq...

Four Astronauts from the UAE go into an exploration mission on a new planet, when they start to face mysterious events.

A meditation on water, "Terrain Ahead" is a hybrid analog-digital experimental documentary exploring the trajectory of human impact on coastlines in...

Yousef Gamal El-Din speaks about the devastating illness in detail for the first time. It’s the untold story of the pain, the struggle and the...