Cineolio’s Cinenights

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, celebrating cinematic togetherness and promoting intellectual and cultural exchange.

The screenings tonight will be followed by a discussion led by Nawaf Al Janahi. The films:

Into the Night dir Faycal Hammoum (2021, Algeria: 17 min)

Louisa moves through the streets of Algiers putting up missing-person posters in search of her daughter, Souad. Her quest ounderlines the profound divide between the generation of independence and Algerian youth today …

Long Trip dir Ali Kadhum (2021, Belgium/Iraq: 13 min – still above)

After the death of his father, Dries must make a fundamental decision to either cremate the body or return it to be buried in his birth country as tradition dictates …

Off-Season dir Francescu Artily (2023, France: 14 min)

A cameraman who shoots picturesque videos for a TV production company wanders alone through landscapes in search of the best view. The image becomes the main character of an existential quest …

Trinidad dir Jose Manuel Azuela (2024, Mexico: 20 min)

A Mexican western set in the 1950s: three children, wishing to keep the memory of their grandfather close, steal his ashes from a cemetery …