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The plot involves characters engaging in fraudulent activities within the film industry, particularly targeting a bank. The narrative takes a dark turn with betrayal and killings among the main characters.
Samuel, a young Filipino expatriate in Dubai, submerged between his financial obligations and bizarre roommate that turned his life into a sinister revelation.
Sam falls into a surreal abyss where his ordinary actions are mirrored by his shadows, forcing him to confront a truth about himself that he desperately avoids. Everything is multiplied, but nothing is divided.
Ibrahim, a poet and a journalist, discovers that he is dying soon from a fatal disease. He confront his crook partner, Bader, and demands his share to make sure that his wife has a better life after he's gone. Shihab, a professional thief forced by his boss to do jobs for him in order to pay off a huge debt, plans to quit crime world to take care of his younger sister. They both meet accidentally just to begin seeing the world with different perspectives.
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 the past hours.
Ashjar La Tamoot (Trees Do Not Die) is a theatrical drama originally written by acclaimed playwright Mahmoud Diab. The first production was staged in 1991 under the direction of Mohsen Mohamed. In 1998, the play was revived with a new interpretation by director Abdullah bin London, featuring a fresh cast that included Mohammed Al-Saadi and Ashwaq. The story metaphorically compares human perseverance to trees that never die, addressing themes of resilience, moral struggle, and the timeless strength of values against adversity.
Lebanon will be crossed by the train during a journey of research in the true sense of borders and exhumation in identity and belonging.
After an Israeli raid causes the two brothers, Milad and Samy, to lose everything, they decide to rent out audio equipment for various occasions, in an attempt to gather enough money to emigrate to Canada.
For many years Africa and the Middle East have been connected. However not many people speak about the nuances and experience of the people who are born from the fusion of both cultures. The merging of two worlds - Africa and the Arabian Peninsula - create an identity that is known as Afro-Arab.
A short film on the obsessive nature of love. How far can we take our attachment and devotion to our loved ones?
Sultan and Walid are brothers, whose father was killed when they were young and they had to face the harshness of life. Walid becomes a businessman, while Sultan completes his studies, but their lives take a different path when the two brothers get into two love stories with Marwa and Hessa.
The ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2020 was a landmark event in the history of cricket and all women's sport. The ICC partnered with Netflix to capture the action, excitement and emotion of the event in a documentary.
After giving up a promising career in museum management to attend to his ailing father, Ahmed spends his days managing the family’s dying perfume business. This sacrifice and his divorce have made him cynical about human nature and this manifests itself in his relationship with Abdulrahman, his aloof 12-year-old boy. Father and son do not see eye-to-eye, and it is as though they speak in different languages. Ahmed is also rather suspicious that his free-spirited sister is back from her travels in Europe to ensure she gets a nice chunk of the inheritance. Suddenly, Ahmed’s ex-wife sues to deny him visitation rights, claiming she doesn’t want her son to see his grandfather dying slowly.
On a spring night of 1999, two teenagers set out in an adventure to save the VHS.
TRIP ALONG EXODUS is a feature-length documentary exploring the last 70 years of Palestinian politics seen through the prism of the life of Dr Elias Shoufani, a leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, an academic writer and leftist intellectual who worked with Fateh (but was one of the leaders of the opposition to Arafat) for 20 years. He is also the father of the filmmaker and writer, Hind.
Filmed in and around the streets of London, this award winning cosmopolitan drama, depicts the son of a world renowned Iraqi writer facing the aftermath of his father's assassination in Baghdad, his moral dilemma about the publishing of a book he has been writing for five years and his unrequited love for his best friend.
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A psychological thriller, Rehan's Flowers follows Zain, a hacker and flower shop owner, who manipulates those around him with deadly precision. When Nora enters his life, Zain’s obsession leads to a deadly game of betrayal, lies, and murder—until a shocking twist reveals the true mastermind.
Dana becomes a local hate figure when she turns her father’s house on the quiet island of Dalma into a holiday rental
Laila, a 26-year-old artist, is commissioned to sketch a portrait of Elena, who proves to be a challenging subject. When Laila presents the finished piece, Elena questions Laila's artistic abilities, leaving Layla disheartened.
Fling your fears to the winds and embark on a journey like no other! It is here that you get to experience the 800 years long battle between Vampires and Lycans with a thrilling touch of multi-sensory 4D! Experience as you never experienced before, experience amazing!
Written by author and poet Ahmed Salmeen and directed by award-winning Emirati Waleed Al Shehhi, Dolphins revolves around Fadel, an ambulance driver, who is divorced and has one son, Saud, who lives with his mother Kawthar. Saud lives in a state of uncertainty due to the separation of his parents, which leads him and his friend Hilal on an unusual adventure with an extraordinary outcome.
Operation Bethlehem follows Palestinian director Leila Sansour's extraordinary journey to the legendary city of Bethlehem, the place where she grew up. Armed with a camera and a family car that keeps breaking down, she sets out to make an intimate portrait of a historical town in peril. Five years on, with 700 hours of footage, the result is nothing like she had expected.
A film crew crashes in the Namibian desert and soon finds themselves being hunted by both a pack of hyena and a ruthless team of hi-tech poachers.
A collage of voices from activists forced to flee the country offers glimpses into Myanmar’s history through three locations: Yangon Zoological Gardens, Yangon Circle Railway, and the Drug Elimination Museum.
A man working at the office late at night stumbles upon a time-travel power that can boost his productivity. But a power so life-changing is nothing to sneeze at.
Living in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, a conservative society, Maitha has a small and seemingly simple dream of swimming in the sea that she frequents. She struggles to avoid agonizing encounters in public due to her veil and society's awareness of her gender. But, fear of judgment is her biggest obstacle of all.
The Akram Tree is a journey through the personal and professional world of the british-bangladeshi coreographer and dancer Akram Khan. My intelligence is in my body says Akram himself, a body built by acute observations of the reality, legends, and unceasing work here well represented by Gnosis, a pièce realized in collaboration with seven artists expressely discovered in different parts of the world. These traditions and experimentations from India, Japan, Pakistan, England, Egypt, Iraq and Bangladesh collaborate together to create a work between classic indian kathak and contemporary dance. The film portrays the story of this peculiar human and artistic adventure often transcending the narration for the sake of a more visionary look influenced by the location where the documentary has been shot: the futuristic and conflictive city of Abu Dhabi with its desertic and metaphysical surroundings.
Blending staged scenes and home footage, Sari Sari reimagines a family’s life inside and around the sari-sari store, where children’s longing collides with the unseen labor of their mother.
In the wake of the ban on women's football in 2014, the national team in Pakistan faced an uncertain and turbulent period. Despite immense cultural barriers, these determined players had fought for their place both on and off the field. The ban disrupted their progress, pushing players to seek alternative income sources and abandon their dreams. After 8 long years, in 2020, FIFA's intervention led to the formation of a normalisation committee, marking a fresh start for the team. Her Right to Play follows the journey of these athletes to the Olympic qualifiers. Fraught with intense training, struggling with injuries and with a desire to prove themselves, the story follows the women’s grit and determination in service of the sport and the flag.
A meditation on water, "Terrain Ahead" is a hybrid analog-digital experimental documentary exploring the trajectory of human impact on coastlines in the United Arab Emirates. The film asks questions around visibility and invisibility, around what is and can be documented and shared and that which cannot.
Naji decides with his friends to go on holiday to a mountainous region, they face many funny and strange comedy situations ,but unexpected moment happened turned their funny journey to horror, fear and mystery.
“Apathy-Rise,” a parody of Coldplay’s Paradise by Niche Trio featuring Pierre Janssen, humorously explores existential themes from The Stranger and Antigone. It contrasts Meursault’s indifference with Antigone’s defiance, highlighting their opposing responses to absurdity and fate. Janssen’s feature adds commentary on their shared tragic outcomes, blending humor with literary insight. “Deadlines,” a parody of Drake’s Headlines, similarly examines existential struggle and inevitability in both works. Through clever wordplay and philosophical reflection, Niche Trio (Tysei Murao, Felix Janssen, Gabriel Reque Cruz) delivers an engaging and concise take on these timeless tragedies.
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 racing.
Is an Emirati melodrama that follows Khalid, who disappears for many years and returns to a changed home that's moved on without him. As he experiences feelings of doubt and envy, a secret about his past life unburies itself.
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 green shoots of hope. Yousef’s mother was diagnosed with the disease in 2007. Over the years, HD took its toll on the entire family. And now Yousef is at a 50% risk of inheriting Huntington’s disease and seeing the same fate as his mother.
This is EPOCH, a coming-of-age tale of a troubled individual who is set on a path to battle his inner demons. Indulge in a physical manifestation of his warpath to redemption.
A simple story about how loneliness can be distinguished between two household roofs
A fake exorcist visits the home of a man who thinks his wife is possessed by a Djinn, only to find out that things are not as they seem.
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 District.
During a lonely night shift at a crisis hotline, a volunteer’s wavering empathy is tested by a call that refuses to stay simple.
A young man going for a trial run at a gym encounters something that pushes him to his absolute limits.
Ali grapples with shame and grief as he deals with the aftermath of his estranged sister committing suicide. He is torn between telling the truth about what happened to his family and community or lying to avoid shame and scandal in his surrounding.
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) have been an integral part of his life and bears many of his childhood memories.
The filmmaker from Dubai created this tale of a rescued kitten told from her perspective, manually created with Adobe Firefly support.
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 the world, Claude Lévi-Strauss battled for this. While he was travelling in the 1950s to meet very different cultures and people, he has always refrained from establishing judgments based on his own comprehension of things, a philosophy that would be very well welcomed in the everyday life of all of us. Mostly, he was the first to coin the notions of the denaturation of culture - in reference to the predominance of western culture over more traditional ones.
In the sleepless lights of New York, a father's longing becomes the city's quiet heartbeat.
A man is punished because he cannot remember what he had for lunch.
Petro-Ghareebo: NAUSEA is a CGI animation set within a virtual world populated with objects of material culture and heritage. Manipulated 3D scans of archaeological sites from the UAE create the landscape in which augmented-reality creatures coexist with pre-Islamic artifacts, spaceships, dune-bashing cars, desert tents made of crustacean limbs, and militarized cyber-dogs. Layers of (mis)-translation and defamiliarization, produce this uncanny reality. An excavation site turned abandoned parking lot, becomes a multilayered poke at practices of commercializing history. Ancient artifacts fusing within decaying cars serve as a morphing contemplation between time and material culture. This world oscillates between the familiar and alien, comfort and nausea, rational and absurd. The vertigo-inducing cinematography features alien, endoscopic, rollercoaster, and drone POV shots. Littered with cross-contamination between scenes, the viewer navigates as though playing a video game.
A documentary filmed in the controversial labor camps of the United Arab Emirates. The film follows a massive Bollywood singing and trivia competition that searches across 70 labor camps throughout the country to find and crown the champ of all camps. The film alternates between music trivia competition and the gritty reality of a drab life lived by the laborers, while weaving in intimate scenes of their daily routines and emotional reflections on their life as laborers in Dubai.
The story of a transgender male who struggles to enlist in the military.
During his extensive visits to different natural habitats around the UAE in the summer of 2022, Zheng Bo was captivated by the umbrella thorn acacia tree, known locally as Samur. For his Artist’s Garden commission at Jameel Arts Centre, Bo choreographed a dance with two human dancers and a Samur tree in the Mleiha desert as a way to understand and reconnect with the land and the tree. The dance pays homage to the tree’s strength and tenacity – the vibrancy of its branches, the delicacy of its leaves, and the defiance of its thorns. The performance is presented at Jameel Arts Centre as a film installation set within a landscape of indigenous plants that thrive in the desert.
A battered wife seeks refuge in her estranged mother to escape her abusive husband. However, she finds herself pressured to return to him. Will she give in or fight back this time?