Beneath a Sea of Lights

I really like the actor Barkhad Abdi I hope he gets some better scripts to work with

This movie is the real meaning of the fantasy life in Dubai and how people fall prey to it. Barkhad Abdi's performance as always was a blinder! The other guy who acted with him was also brilliant. It really gets into your skin and makes you think if you really made a wise decision of leaving your motherland, just for this so called 'fantasy world of Dubai' to make money. Highly recommended! Total Gem!

90 minute slow rollercoaster, with a touch of humanity at the end of the ride. Believably acted, with a director that let the actors be what is really happening all us. No filter, there is right and wrong.

A breath of fresh air. A new and fresh movie with great actors. A fair portrayal of expats living in the Middle East countries. Yearning for a social status which is rarely achieved. Great story Jim Sarbh was brilliant in his role.

People who work outside their countries, i.e., expats are at an alarming level in the middle east. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia being the highest ratio in the WORLD. Having said that, the aspirations and emotional prerogatives are incomparable with the expat situation in the rest of the world. This is a region where an expat's life is 100% rented out; emotionally and physically. The only region in the world where there is no entrance into a citizenship - once an expat, always an expat.

The film portrays "this" unique situation, being an expat, with aspirations that can never be explained, except on film.

A fair and accurate representation, well done; Abdi is believable, and the rest I guess are just there; and the pace of the screenplay is a direct portrayal of what really goes on "Beneath a sea of lights".