SIFF 2025: Arabic Short Films (Group 2)

Part of the 12th edition of the Sharjah International Film Festival screenings, this package of 5 Arabic short films explores resilience, love, and identity. In (Your Excellency), a graduate’s future is derailed by bureaucracy until an enigmatic company offers a way out. (Gum) tenderly follows a boy with Down syndrome discovering first love. (Caravan Rawan) traces a couple’s road trip to confront a wife’s fear of open spaces. In (Saeed’s Day), irony and chaos turn an ordinary day in Riyadh into a comedy of life’s unpredictability. Finally, (Delusion) portrays a doctor’s fragile journey from depression to fragile clarity, where solitude and chance encounters reshape his understanding of existence.