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Nawaf Aljanahi, is an actor, film director, and still photographer. He was born on the 7th of February, 1977 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. At the age of 19, he moved to California (USA) and studied the arts of cinema both in the academic and personal levels.

After returning to the UAE, Aljanahi produced and directed several independent short films which were recognized at many well known international film festivals around the world.

His latest film, Mirrors of Silence, was highly celebrated by both film critics and the audience, and has been officially selected in over 17 international film festivals around the world, being the only film from the United Arab Emirates in a number of them.

The name of Nawaf Aljanahi shines as a filmmaker and photographer who has an astonishing and distinguished experience in filmmaking with concentration on the language of vision by utilizing all the expressive capabilities that the image may contain. The films he has made to date present him as a special case in the UAE Cinema, characterized by independent direction, disengaging himself from ordinary, direct, and traditional approach with which is nowadays found in the mainstream Arabic cinema. And if we took into consideration that cinema is a picture that talks and tells independently, then the films directed by Nawaf Aljanahi are closer to the pure cinematographic state. (read less)

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Nawaf Aljanahi, is an actor, film director, and still photographer. He was born on the 7th of February, 1977 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. At the age of 19, he moved to California (USA) and studied the arts of cinema both in the academic and personal levels.

After returning to the UAE, Aljanahi produced and directed several independent short films which were recognized at many well known international film festivals around the world.

His latest film, Mirrors of Silence, was high... (read more)