United Arab Emirates Movies

An Indian and a Pakistani try to resolve their differences as they guard an empty construction site in the Dubai desert.

A barber at a highway barbershop is caught in a deadly situation when he realizes that he learns his first customer of the day isn't who he seems. A w...

Queens of Troy follows a group of Syrian Refugee women as they put on their own updated, Arabic version of Euripides' ancient Greek play about refugee...

After being forced to leave his country three times, a Lebanese film director traces his roots and analyzes key moments of the nation's history.

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) ha...

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

Walid is searching for work. His family's well-being depends on it - wife, son, unborn child... Economic crisis is in full swing.

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

An Egyptian woman is trying to look after her four children, especially in the lead-up to and aftermath of her divorce from their father. However, ove...

A collage of voices from activists forced to flee the country offers glimpses into Myanmar’s history through three locations: Yangon Zoological Garden...

A hopeful man refuses to believe that he is a jinx despite the misfortune he casts upon himself and his loved ones.

In what could be considered a follow up to Al Qasimi’s 2020 work Mother of Fire, she once again invokes the figure of the jinn (spirits in Islamic myt...

The story of a transgender male who struggles to enlist in the military.

A chronicle of the everyday life in Constantine's psychiatric hospital.

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

The artist spent 24 hours with each of four women—Rogine, Waad, Hanin, and Zeina—in the cities where they now live: Zutphen, Oslo, Washington DC, and...

"Don't Get Too Comfortable" is a heartfelt introspective letter to my deceased grandfather. The letter questions the continuous pattern of movement am...