At just 22, Emirati filmmaker Ali Fuad is already building the kind of career he once dreamed of while sitting in dark theaters at the Sharjah International Film Festival for Children & Youth. “I’ve attended since I was 16,” he says. “I would watch screenings and Q&As with filmmakers and tell myself, ‘One day that’s going to be me.’”
This year, Fuad comes full circle with two documentaries in the official selection: “Oh Yamal,” a meditation on the UAE’s pearl diving past, and “Guardians of the Mountains,” an exploration of tribal traditions preserved for over millennia.
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