Abdullah Al-Eyaf

Who is Abdullah Al-Eyaf?

Abdullah Al-Eyaf is a Saudi film director also known as Abdullah Al Eyaf and Abdullah Aleyaf. He directed many award winning films. His first film was a 42-minutes documentary Cinema 500 km which discusses the ban on cinemas in Saudi Arabia by following a young Saudi movie fan during his first trip outside the country just to experience his first ever film in a theater. Al-Eyaf's second project was a 19 minutes short film called Etaar. The third short short he made was the 23-minutes drama Matar which was shown in many international film festivals around the world. The last project was the short "Aayesh" in 2010 which won Gulf Film Festival award for best short, Aayesh was well received by the audience and the critics.

Abdullah Al-Eyaf works as an engineer for a living. He writes a weekly column in Al-Riyadh, a Saudi newspaper. He also established and edited a weekly cinema page for the Al-Watan newspaper.