A few months later, the first cinema of art house cinema in the Persian Gulf will open in Dubai.
In autumn, the first full-fledged art house cinema in the region will open in Dubai. The credo of the cinema Akil - "cinema brings people together." According to the founder of the cinema Buthein Kazima, cinema is a "joint journey into the dark."
Akil Cinema is familiar to every movie fan in the UAE, earning an impeccable reputation for nearly four years from its founding. Ms. Buthein Kazima is convinced that the cinema should offer the audience something that the movie itself cannot offer.
“We focus on all the attributes of watching a movie,” Kazima says. The world of cinema is not only movies. In our new cinema, the viewer will be impressed with a lot of things: the interior, special refreshments of the buffet, the atmosphere of arthouse cinema.
For Kazima, the opening of an art house cinema in Dubai does not just provide an opportunity to show independent, complex and historical cinema, first of all, it is a search for like-minded people in the city, people with common views on art, regardless of the fact that they speak different languages and represent different nationalities .
The walls in the new cinema will be decorated with dark red wallpaper and old movie posters. Armchairs borrowed from Dubai's oldest movie theater Plaza, closed three years ago. In the cinema house there will be a cafe in thirty places where you can taste signature chocolate and buy popcorn.
The idea to open a cinema in which you can not only watch movies, but also meet people who are close in spirit did not arise by chance. The fact is that today cinemas are at risk from other ways of watching movies, for example, using streaming services such as Netflix. According to a survey in the United States, more than half of respondents prefer to watch movies at home rather than go to the movies. At present, cinemas often position themselves as places of cultural leisure along with museums and opera houses.
