United Arab Emirates Movies

When an American filmmaker is commissioned to make a film for a Middle East Biennial on the theme of 'art as a subversive act,' his film is banned...

Panoptic explores Lebanon's schizophrenia. Depicting a nation thriving for modernity while ignoring the vices preventing it from achieving its goal,...

Hayat, a 12-year-old strong-willed girl, lives in a poor fishing village governed by dark tradition, in which every family must give away a daughter...

The townspeople soon regretted a man who had been fired recently, until they had feelings of remorse for helping this miserable to find a new job.

Focusing on the work of cartoonists in Egypt, Algeria, Syria, and Palestine, this documentary examines how comic strips and caricatures are becoming...

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...

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 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 recorded camera invitation extended to 28 Palestinian diasporas to share their memories of their homeland results in an unexpected journey into...

In 1974, 24 year-old Francis Wetherbee, a bank teller who is the subject of small-town envy and gossip, disappears from her hometown of Smithville,...

A documentary film about the director's mother and her experience in the Lebanese Civil War and how she is now. The theme of the film is the lack of...

Conjointly, ancient artifacts around the world are vanishing and the archaeologists and scientists responsible for handling them are disappearing...

A poetic exploration of the city of Dubai and the surrounding desert, following the 2009/10 economic crash.

When a religious mosque prayer caller begins to lose his voice, he looks for a replacement in his neighbor: a vocalist in a heavy metal rock band.

The Price of Sex is a documentary about young Eastern European women who’ve been drawn into a netherworld of sex trafficking and abuse....

An argument between an unhappy couple, triggered by the consumption of a bad bunch of oysters, escalates into a heated fight, due to the wife's...

After her seven children fled Syria seeking refuge worldwide, 80-year-old Susu finds herself with no other choice but to leave Damascus and move to...