United Arab Emirates Movies

Dubai was a city once built on pearls. This documentary follows four "invisible" workers, the pearls, living far from their families to keep other...

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

Adiala follows the journey of undercover agent Shabbar into the famous prison Adiala in Rawalpindi to explore nexus between a politician Sagheer...

This is a film about a simple Emirati family, a mother, father, and son, living in a mountainous area of the Emirates. The film takes place over a...

A fresh young graduate is offered a new corporate job, completing every assignment to company-standard. Burnout is inevitable, and the administration...

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

Shot between days in Southeast Asia and the UAE, exploring the transient moments of life.

a film by Aisha Al Qassab

The Arab Gulf is hyper-technological, hyper-capitalist, hyper-collectivist, and hyper-real. Regional aesthetics and credo are notoriously futurist...

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

After returning to a desert road tied to his past, Ryan is forced to confront the memories of a relationship that slowly fell apart. As moments from...

A cheerful rose gradually reveals her hidden pain as her bright world darkens, ultimately burning away in a silent cry for understanding.

Dzaleka Refugee Camp, is under-resourced and over-populated. Once Malawi's high-security prison, it now shelters over 53,000 displaced people from...

In the beautiful mountains of Fujairah, there’s a boy called Suhail who suffers from autism. By interviewing his family, friends, tea- chers,...

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...

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 poetic portrait of a blind father with a bright perspective on life, who is strongly determined to deliver his message to the world.