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, [ ... ]
A special Ramadan film screening of Zainab Shaheen's debut feature, a coming-of-age story that doubles as a love letter to the landscapes of the UAE. Suhail is a young Emirati with autism, living alone in the Fujairah mountains after his [ ... ]
An animated fantasy drama with no dialogue that tells the story of a man shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. His attempts to escape are foiled by what turns out to be a giant red hawksbill sea turtle; she turns into [ ... ]
A special screening of Zainab Shaheen's debut feature, a coming-of-age story that doubles as a love letter to the landscapes of the UAE. Suhail is a young Emirati with autism, living alone in the Fujairah mountains after his father shuns [ ... ]
Documentarist Phil Grabsky has carved a niche for himself by concentrating for the most part on films about artists – composers first, then more recently painters; Young Picasso is both typical of this work and one the best examples of [ ... ]
Writer-director Annika Pinske’s debut feature tells the story of Clara, a middle-aged college lecturer and doctoral candidate who seems somewhat uncomfortable with her life in Berlin. That gets put into focus when she pays a weekend visit to her hometown [ ... ]
This new screen adaptation of the Dumas novel premiered at last year's Festival de Cannes. The critics liked it: The New York Times called it "stirringly acted and gorgeously filmed" and said "this swashbuckler leaves previous versions of Dumas's famous [ ... ]
A quiet, compassionate story of human connection. Sentaro runs a small dorayaki shop, living a routine life until Tokue, an elderly woman, asks to help in the kitchen. Her exceptional skill in making sweet red bean paste transforms the business [ ... ]
Set in 1950s Baghdad, this highly-rated film follows a schoolteacher who moves his family to a modest new neighbourhood after being forced to leave their former home. As tensions with a neighbour escalate from childhood disputes into open conflict, Said [ ... ]
Winner of the Grand Prix at the Festival de Cannes, followed by the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and BAFTA recognition, this is something of a masterpiece from Trier: the Rotten Tomatoes summary is to the point – [ ... ]
An absolutely stunning low-budget (and largely handmade) antidote to Disneyfication – a wordless animated fable about a cat reluctantly making friends with a dog, a ring-tailed lemur, a capybara and a secretary bird in a post-apocalyptic world. There's a strong [ ... ]
Set in a Venetian boarding school for orphaned girls at the end of the 18th century, Gloria! tells the story of a group of talented young musicians who are determined to make music. There's a mischievous musical anachronism at the [ ... ]
This free programme screens as part of the European Film Festival, organised by the Delegation of the European Union to the UAE in partnership with the Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah Art. The films: Guardians of the [ ... ]
This French comedy-drama, written as well as directed by Lilti, tells the story of Benjamin, a PhD student in need of money and under parental pressure. He becomes a substitute teacher in a surburban middle school but without any experience [ ... ]
Misunderstood by the world, 14-year-old Elvis searches for his place within a broken family and in a school where he's bullied. He wants to become an inventor, swears by comics, chemistry and Hana, the most beautiful girl in the school. [ ... ]
A satirical comedy of the near future: unemployed Max (Blanche Gardin) struggles to earn a living by selling stolen robot parts on the black market. But her latest ‘acquisition’, T-0, is too old for the fence; her 10-year-old daughter Paula [ ... ]
The first Somali film to be featured at the Cannes Film Festival (in 2024), The Village Next to Paradise tells the story of Mamargrade who is struggling to raise his son Cigaal in their rural Somali village amidst conflict, natural [ ... ]
A young cook runs away from home to pursue her dream of becoming a chef at a prestigious restaurant in the city – but when she stumbles upon a cookbook from 1929, authored by the legendary chef Olga Franko, her [ ... ]
An animated adventure based on the 1999 children's novel by Michael Morpurgo. On a worldwide sailing trip with his family, young Michael and his dog are swept overboard during a storm in the Pacific. They wash ashore on a desert [ ... ]
Cutting-edge AI-driven therapy has revolutionised treatment for depression; but Alesia's subconscious embarks on a virtual journey where reality and fantasy intertwine, forcing her to confront past demons to reclaim her mental health This Romanian film shows as part of the [ ... ]
Lev is an insecure boy who leads a dull life with restrictive parents. But then his cool, rebellious grandma shows up to sweep him away on an exciting adventure to discover his own superpowers. The film combines a great family-friendly;y [ ... ]
This dramatic thriller explores the themes of self-sacrifice, love, and toxic relationships. After her boyfriend Vytas experiences a psychotic episode and disappears, Maria is determined to find him; chasing down every clue about his whereabouts, she embarks on a fast-paced [ ... ]
This sports movie, inspired by real events from the 2019 para-hockey world championships, follows three men at crossroads in their lives: an advertising agency owner trying to save his family, a retiring coach whose sport faces extinction, and a promising [ ... ]
A mystery drama inspired by one of Malta’s most compelling unsolved crimes, the 1984 disappearance of a Caravaggio from St John’s Cathedral in Valletta. Priest Orpheus is woken by the police with the news that a priceless Caravaggio has been [ ... ]
Cian is a dairy farmer, amateur sportsman and committed hedonist never slow to hit the pub after training. After roping two pals into yet another nightclub bender, he’s subjected to a brutal alleyway beating that leaves him with concussion and [ ... ]
In a bustling seaside town, Miecia – known as “Queen" – has run her smokehouse for over forty years: a beloved fixture in the community, it is a meeting place for all, a lifeline for some, and a small empire [ ... ]
This film is a tribute to the near-legendary singer, Stelios Kazantzidis, whose voice touched the hearts of all Greeks around the world; it’s a touching story of a refugee child from Pontus in northeastern Anatolia, who managed to survive and [ ... ]
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania has created a docudrama that reconstructs the horrifying true story of five-year-old Hind Rajab as she is bombarded by the Israeli army in Gaza in 2024. Rajab survived the original assault by the IDF, which [ ... ]
A music-filled dialogue-free feature-length animation about a young astronaut and her guardian robot. Based on Kid Koala’s award-winning graphic novel, it deals poignantly with love, loss, memories and the bonds that connect us ... The film has an original score [ ... ]
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