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Ahmed Emad and the Path of Desire
A desire path is an unofficial route formed when people choose the shortest, most instinctive way between two points, favouring lived experience over prescribed design. It is a path made by repetition, conviction, and quiet resistance. Based between Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, Ahmed Emad’s journey follows a similar logic. A Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate, former museum educator at Louvre Abu Dhabi, he is currently the Public Programming Specialist at the highly anticipated Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Lebanese Director Fadi Syriani Asks: After “All This Death”, What Comes Next?
The 16-minute stop motion animated short film follows Vladimir, an elderly Beirut resident through his ritual of obsessively reading obituaries and attending strangers’ funerals daily
And on the ‘Sixth Day’, Neither of them Went Back
The story of Youssef Chahine, Dalida, and a film marked by tragedy
After Its Dubai Debut, Fujifilm Short Film Festival Heads to Nairobi, Beirut, Cairo, and Jeddah
Fujifilm, Cinema Akil, and Gulf Photo Plus champion short-form cinema as a space for new voices, dialogue, and discovery
Al-Música: When Arabic Music Went Latin
Danny Hajjar traces the centuries-long rhythm between Arabic and Latin sounds, from Al-Andalus to reggaeton