Cinema & Theatre

KhorFakkan Theatre Festival is an open event for theatre groups of Arab and Islamic countries with diverse age groups; it revolves around the concept of “Improvisational theatre” in series of short plays. Open-air platforms by the beach host several plays...

(SIFF) is the first film festival in the UAE, and the region of its kind. Organized by (FUNN) Sharjah Media Arts for Youth and Children and established under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher Bint Mohammed Al Qasimi (wife...

learn the basics of film making with Nikon for 3 days  Teaching and Shooting & Script writing and the 4th day: Editing Film making Competition.   Registration link

Sharjah Capability Development is launching the Theater Directing Workshop in Sharjah running for 24 sessions every Sunday, Monday & Wednesday between 20th of July – 5th of September 2022, at Sharjah performing arts academy.

Theoretical and practical workshops offered in different theater arts (acting, scenography, directing) Under the supervision of a group of theater specialists, within the activities of the Kalba Festival for Short Plays, which will be launched next September. – Acting workshop,...

(SIFF) is the first film festival in the UAE, and the region of its kind. Organized by (FUNN) Sharjah Media Arts for Youth and Children and established under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher Bint Mohammed Al Qasimi (wife...

Sharjah Film Platform is an annual festival organised by Sharjah Art Foundation to support the growing film scene in the UAE by celebrating and sustaining the work of local, regional and international filmmakers. The fourth edition, running from 19 to...

The Africa Institute (Sharjah, UAE), in collaboration with the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (London, UK), present a film program titled Decolonizing African Cinema – A History. This program seeks to situate influential works of African cinema in relation...

Sharjah Art Foundation and Habibi Collective present three films by MENA female directors. Venturing into diasporic, collective and inherited memories, the films attempt to narrativise a series of uprooted experiences. Sharjah Art Foundation presents a series of online film screenings...

This performance is the Middle East premiere of android opera Scary Beauty composed by Keiichiro Shibuya. A robot with artificial intelligence will conduct composer Keiichiro Shibuya’s android opera Scary Beauty and sing with a human orchestra. This one-of-a-kind performance explores the relationship...