United Arab Emirates Movies

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

In 1960s Sharjah, a grandfather opens a world of friendship to his granddaughter through his tales of pearl divers and life at sea. As she grows up,...

A film poem by Gérard Courant.

Zouhair militates with these friends to participate in a demonstration against the war, but they have other priorities... "The New Horizon...

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

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

Imran, hailing from Pakistan, works at the fish market in UAE. Wrestling runs in his family and is part of their legacy. Akhadas (wrestling ground)...

Told from the perspective of Anthony—an easy-going teenager who effortlessly falls for everyone he meets—this dramatic romantic tale...

When two friends start receiving unrequested room service orders that seem to mirror their thoughts and conversations almost too well, they realize...

Mark Wright, a private detective, searches for his missing wife. The path takes him to the cemetery, to find an unnamed headstone. Could that be her?

Acclaimed director Michel Khleifi's story of a Palestinian film-maker 'M' living in Europe, who returns home to Ramallah to film witness accounts of...

A friend conspires with a third party against his friend, and this leads to interesting events and reveals unexpected secrets

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

A coming of age drama that follows the lives of two friends, Sudeep and Vignesh, in their late teens. Sudeep is academically inclined, while Vignesh...

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

The story of the film revolves around the inheritance struggle of a very old house, where the grandmother asks all her family members to live in this...

A boat has many powers: to gather a society in its making, to distribute goods, to carry people and ideas across places that, it seems to us, are...

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...

Lebanon will be crossed by the train during a journey of research in the true sense of borders and exhumation in identity and belonging.

Three young men wake up from sleep, all three discover that they are in strange places and unfamiliar to them, and try to find out what happened in...