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Sharjah Film Platform 9

[various Sharjah locations]

Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual celebration of indie/experimental cinema returns for its ninth edition with a 10-day lineup of films (26 of them) plus talks and artist development programmes. Screenings and events will take place at Mirage City Cinema, SAF’s open-air [... more]

Per screening: AED 15

Dubai Design Week

d3

Dubai Design Week goes from strength to strength as the region's design festival and establishing Dubai's position as the design capital of the Middle East. This time there's a very busy, very programme around d3 includes installations, new commissions, exhibitions, [... more]

Free (mostly)

Wafa Al Falahi: Feathers in the Reeds, Milk in the Mud

Hunna Art Warehouse 49A, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The Emirati artist's first solo exhibition features an imaginary bestiary on paintings, works on paper and ceramic sculptures. Al Falahi’s creatures each carry a feeling, a memory or a premonition, says the gallery: "Pieced together from what has stayed with the [... more]

Free

CLOSING TODAY Alaa Itani: A Momentum for the Horizon

Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

A visual meditation on the horizon as both boundary and promise, a visible line that remains perpetually distant. Alaa Itani's solo show brings together reverse glass paintings of horizons, blurred landscapes, and moving cloud formations; he explores landscape as acts [... more]

Free

Cineolio’s Cinenights

Alliance Française Dubai Dubai

Founded by Emirati filmmaker and curator Nawaf Al Janahi in 2020, Cineolio‘s mission is focused on promoting short films and expanding their audience reach internationally. Its Cinenights screening series presents a diverse selection of short films on the big screen, [... more]

AED 25 – AED 35