Xposure honours outstanding filmmakers across 4 categories

The Xposure International Film Awards 2026 honoured global filmmakers whose work demonstrates purposeful storytelling and cinematic craft during a dedicated awards ceremony held on Monday.

- Gulf Today, Staff Reporter

The latest edition attracted 634 film submissions from more than 60 countries, highlighting the festival's growing international reach and its expanding focus on film as a vital visual medium.

Presented during the 10th edition of the Xposure International Photography Festival, the awards celebrated excellence across Cinematic Arts, Visual Effects, Documentary Feature, and Short Film, reinforcing film's position as a core pillar of Xposure’s visual storytelling programme.

Through the film awards, Xposure acknowledges film as an essential medium within its wider visual culture platform, supporting cinematic works that document reality and engage with social and cultural narratives.

The awards were presented by Tariq Saeed Allay, Director General of the Sharjah Government Media Bureau (SGMB), and Alya Al Suwaidi, Director of SGMB.

In the Best Cinematic Arts Award category, Danish Farhan (UAE) won for Bedouins of the Wind, with Kazakhstan's Maxim Akbarov named runner-up for Steppe.