Mountain Boy: dir Zainab Sheheen (2023)

Feel-good family feature film based on Michele Ziolkowski’s award-winning children’s book The Boy Who Knew the Mountains. Suhail, a lad with autism, flees to the mountains when his father shuns him. With his new friend Barakah, an Arabian Saluki, Suhail makes an epic journey to find acceptance, family, and redemption. Mountain Boy is an inspiring epic that remind us how differences can be celebrated – and that kindness can be contagious.

Screens as part of the Cultural Foundation’s week-long European Film Festival Abu Dhabi 2025. The films are given individual entries in the Agenda, but they’re also all listed here.