• Mountain Boy: dir Zainab Shaheen (2024)

    Etihad Museum 1 Jumeirah St, Dubai

    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 [ ... ]

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  • POSTPONED The Voice of Hind Rajab: dir Kaouther Ben Hania (2025)

    The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    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 [ ... ]

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  • The Red Turtle: dir Michaela Dudoka De Wita (2016)

    Louvre Abu Dhabi Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

    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 [ ... ]

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  • Mountain Boy: dir Zainab Shaheen (2024)

    Etihad Museum 1 Jumeirah St, Dubai

    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 [ ... ]

    Free
  • Young Picasso: dir Phil Grabsky (2019)

    Louvre Abu Dhabi Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

    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 [ ... ]

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