The 6th Annual 2024 UAE Student Film Festival

The 6th Annual UAE Student Film Festival took place on Monday, May 20th!


This was our sixth annual show and just like every year, our students have been busy working on movies to show to you here. Our classes here at ACS cover 9th graders all the way to 12th graders, so there are a wide variety of skills on display here.


This year, we had over 110 films entered into the festival. Students were able to submit any work that they made throughout the year to compete in the different categories. However, no matter how many films a student might have submitted, they could only enter them into TWO categories.


Some students submitted multiple films. Others only submitted one film. But of all the films submitted, we had to boil it down to FIVE nominees per category. So, if you don’t see the film you were looking for, that just means that the competition was strong. For instance, there were 27 films entered in the drama category alone!


But we wanted to celebrate EVERY student who participated in this year’s festival, so be on the lookout for the SUPERCUT below, which gives you a quick overview of the types of movies that were submitted. 


Enjoy this sampling of our work from this year and watch the main festival presentation on the 2024 page linked above…


• Outstanding Drama - Ben Madoyan

• Outstanding UAE Focus - Adnan Allobani

• Outstanding PSA/Documentary -  Sidra Gebirrebbi

• Outstanding Comedy - Abhijay Manoj

• Outstanding Thriller/Horror - Jakob Mogensen

• Outstanding Music Video/Video Art - Ryan Ayoub

        •       Outstanding Action - Farouk Elrabi

• Outstanding Sci-Fi - Ryan Ayoub/Jakob Mogensen

• Outstanding Screenwriting - Janaki Gokul

• Outstanding Director - Ben Madoyan

• Outstanding Cinematography - Abay Sultanbek/Dylan Younger

• Outstanding Editing - Sam Lewis

• Outstanding Sound - Ben Terblanche

• Outstanding Visual Effects - Dylan Younger

• Best Intro to Film Production - Sydney Toth

• Best in Show - Ben Madoyan/Ben Terblanche


Also included for awards were Caden Van Zyl for Best Poster, Rashid Sesay for Best Actor, Elside Ficek for Best Actress, and the cast of "Kingsley on Keys" for Best Ensemble.