United Arab Emirates Movies

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...

Bani Abidi emphatically presents scenes from the daily lives of the Hazara community in Quetta, Pakistan, alongside narratives of persecution and...

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

Abdullah follows the story of a young man who grew up in a very conservative family where many things are "haram" while he struggles over the years...

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

Sara grew up in Yemen to a Yemeni father and a Scottish mother, and at age 17, finally decided to move to Scotland. Ten years later – 2011...

A short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.

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

Four songs on Middle Eastern conflicts with a sense of love for Arab identity and commitment to the Palestinian cause. This film is about the stories...

Nicky and Patrick are two young and aspiring musicians. After another unsuccessful all-nighter, Nicky begins to have doubts about his pursuit of...

A short documentary experiment on a trip to Bahrain, exploring nostaglia as a borrowed perspective.

Two Pills of Ruin is a short Emirati awareness film produced in 2011 by the General Command of Umm Al Quwain Police in collaboration with Layalina...

Hotel in the City presents an interwoven narrative of several individuals brought together by a single location — a hotel in the heart of the...

A group of Emirati youths head to a remote desert farmhouse owned by one of their fathers to spend a weekend during the winter. While practicing the...

Set in a coastal Emirati village during the 1950s, the film follows a fisherman named Juma who strives to fulfill his late wife's wish of educating...

Petro-Ghareebo: NAUSEA is a CGI animation set within a virtual world populated with objects of material culture and heritage. Manipulated 3D scans of...

Five different people experience life-changing moments that shift their lives over different routes. They live in a state of permanent waiting - for...

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...

Anjali wakes up in a nightmarish scene and is apprehended for a crime that she doesn’t remember committing. Piece by piece, her fragmented...