''Aerials'' is a 2016 Emirati

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...

film set in the city of

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United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (Middle East, The Middle East). It is ...

. Directed by

S. A. Zaidi S. A. Zaidi is a Dubai-based film director in the United Arab Emirates. He is best known for the first Arab science fiction film Aerials, and the Emirati post-apocalyptic science fiction film The Sons of Two Suns. Early life and career S. A. ...

and produced by Ghanem Ghubash, it is the first

film made in UAE. It portrays an

alien Alien primarily refers to: * Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country ** Enemy alien, the above in times of war * Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth ** Specifically, intelligent extrater ...

invasion over the city of

. It stars Saga Alyasery, Ana Druzhynina, Mansoor Alfeeli, and Mohammad Abu Diak.

Premise

Earth is invaded by aliens from outer space. An multiracial couple living in the city of

are confined to their home due to the uncertainty of the situation. Disconnected from the world outside due to the loss of communication, they explore around their cultural differences in science in order to understand the reason behind aliens coming to our planet, only to find themselves confronted by a pair of extraterrestrial encounters at their home.

Cast

* Saga Alyasery as Omar * Ana Druzhynina as Omar's wife * Mansoor Alfeeli as Marwan * Mohammad Abu Diak as Guy in car * Pascale Matar as Sara * Luke Coutts as Insurance guy * Abeer Mohammed as Arabic news anchor * Tamara Ljubibratic as News anchor 1 * Derrik Sweeney as News anchor 2

Release

The films official trailer was released at

Middle East Film and Comic Con The Middle East Film and Comic Con (commonly referred to as MEFCC) is a speculative fiction convention held annually in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in the month of April. The MEFCC showcases comic books and film/ television, and other pop ...

Dubai, and IGN Middle East Abu Dhabi. The film was released in cinemas of United Arab Emirates on June 16, 2016. The film was internationally released in May 2020 on Netflix.

References

External links

* 2016 films Emirati science fiction films 2010s Arabic-language films 2010s English-language films English-language Emirati films Films set in Dubai Films shot in Dubai Unidentified flying objects 2016 science fiction films Emirati multilingual films 2016 multilingual films {{Dubai-stub