Discoveries from Kuwait World Cinema

The film shows the journey of a government employee, who strives to change his job title before retirement.

Here we have a real carsploitation epic from Kuwait. The police in Kuwait has a long experience chasing all kinds of criminals all over the country and no one can match the officers in speed driving on American cars. There are plenty of car crashes in this film in the spirit of quintessential American carsploitation films from the 1970s.

Sulaiman, a high-school student, is accused of cheating during an Arabic exam and he has to convince the vice-principal that he wasn’t and get his full grade instead of a zero. His journey isn’t as easy as it seems.

A story about the suicide of an Asian worker that causes controversy in his workplace.

A warrior fighting for his freedom.

We Die and Kuwait Remains is a documentary about Asrar Mohammed Al-Qabandi’s (a Kuwaiti martyr) significant role in the Kuwaiti resistance during the Iraqi invasion in the 90s. She joined the resistance since the first days of the siege as a link between inside and outside Kuwait, also prepared and implemented smuggling operation of an important civil documents that were on the Kuwaiti central bank computer to the Kuwaiti government in Saudi Arabia before Iraqi army obtain and destroy them. Furthermore, She forged the identities of foreigners and important figures were in Kuwait, protected them, and extended the Kuwaiti resistance with weapons and money. Thanks to her technical experience, She broke the media siege and was the first Kuwaiti woman talking to CNN about the killing, destruction, and violations that were happening in Kuwait.

This pioneering documentary follows a physically and mentally challenging kayaking expedition led by BASHAR AL HUNEIDI and accompanied by Colin Wong & Mansour Al Safran through six countries from Kuwait to Oman. After several dangerous brushes with death, the Expedition is rewarded by Mother Earth with breathtaking scenery, marine, and wildlife on the journey of exposing the region's plastic and pollution of The Gulf.

Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp. In this documentary, we will take a look at the life of actor and director Charlie Chaplin, and talk about his films and hidden symbolisms.

A short film about a policeman who decided to impersonate a taxi driver to hunt down a serial killer, who used to kill taxi drivers and steal their money in Kuwait during the 1980s.

Ali is a Bengali worker in Kuwait. When he accidentally sneezes on his Kuwaiti manager’s face, he fears the worst-case scenario and obsesses over the manager’s reaction.

Through the words of a grandmother, the memories of her sewing machine, the children’s songs, and the drawings on the wall, the filmmaker reenacts an ode where she becomes her child self and her grandmother at the same time. The foremothers’ songs and the colorful fabrics weave the stories of distance, longing, and loss.

A friendship that started from childhood. As they grew, a question unfolded: whats does it mean to be a friend?

Khaled is a young man in his twenties, whose curiosity is aroused by annoying sounds coming from the house of his neighbor Bu Hamad, but that curiosity leads him to what he did not expect.

Al-Jadah is a word in the Kuwaiti dialect that refers to the youngest son in the family. The film tells about the youngest boy of a Kuwaiti family, he goes to war and his news is cut off.

Twelve-year-old Abdullah loves photography, so when his father gives him a new camera to reward him for getting good grades at school, he is thrilled. But while he is out and about taking shots, he inadvertently takes a picture of a crime in progress, and soon, the bandits are after him, intent on destroying the evidence. Dramatic with some clever comic relief, ‘A Picture’ is a great play on the old adage that crime doesn’t pay.

The film unfolds within a social context, blending emotional situations with comedic touches.

As panic engulfs the city of Hawalli, a determined cop races to stop a violent criminal before he can abduct another child. Inspired by true events.

Failaka, previously Ikaros, the ancient island off the coast of Kuwait, recalls an oracle decades after the Gulf War left it deserted. Nature guards the island's ruins, animals roam it awaiting to be found, holes reach to its belly—the island where the pedigrees of pasts and futures meet. The film follows Hassan, a native to Failaka, but who had lost memory of its existence until a few years ago, when it brought him back to it.

A brief overlook on the life of certain men.

The story depicts a young Kuwaiti who’s attempting to get the right photo taken for his passport.

A phone call tells Hamad to leave the house before the invaders come, but they have arrived before he can escape.

One night, a second chance at his dream becomes a nightmare when a Kuwaiti man is haunted by his younger self and hunted by his self-doubt.

A man during quarantine wakes up and starts watching videos of turtles.

Likhita invites her friends to a birthday party, and they miss it. The next day, she is found dead. The mystery unfolds around whether her death was natural, suicide, or murder, and is revealed as the plot progresses.

After giving up on the doctors, Ajab wanders through the night in search of a witch to remedy his damaged leg, navigating the nightly city, and witnessing some fantastical encounters that will teach him more about how to be human.

Engineer Ahmed is looking for an alternative relationship away from his dead marriage, which he finds in Mut'ah marriage (temporary marriage).

Khalaf is 10 years old, and he is from the desert in Kuwait in the past. He goes with his father for a trip to find a new water well for their tribe, but something happens to them that changes course of events.

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