This program deals with real and simulated worlds, and the ways in which lives may sometimes seek to circumvent the boundaries drawn around them.

These films examine the states of refugees, both as victims of information and from information itself in the form of inescapable modern communications.

This program turns around the idea of equilibrium on simultaneously personal and global scales, with a special attention to how human actions break the symmetry around us, or yet seek to reestablish it.

For our closing night we’ll look beyond the earth and humanity. Michael Madsen’s new feature The Visit, examines the possibility of visitors from far from the Earth.

ATMOSPHERES is a sci-art exhibition held in conjunction with the Imagine Science Film Festival Abu Dhabi, the NYUAD Arts Center, and the NYUAD Art Gallery.

The film festival will open with a voyage into the farthest reaches of the icy Antarctic, a destination seemingly far from the deserts of the Gulf, but of equally vital relevance to the entire world. Equal parts scientific procedural and gripping adventure story, Luc Jacquet’s Ice and the Sky also presents the findings that laid the groundwork for much of our modern understanding of climate change.