Dubaï flamingos (2012)
Directed by Delphine Kreuter

Film Synopsis

Vincent is a man in his mid-forties who lives in the emirate of Dubaï, one of the jewels of the Persian Gulf.  His life is thrown into a turmoil when his wife Livia suddenly goes missing, without leaving the slightest clue as to where she might be.  Suspecting that she may have left him for another man, but fearing something worse may have befallen her, Vincent immediately sets out to look for her.  This is when Jackie enters his life.  They meet in a car park, with the young woman in tears.  Vincent finds himself strongly drawn to the mysterious woman, who is about his age but different in so many ways.

Jackie has come to Dubaï on a personal mission which she is reluctant to divulge, although she is evidently grateful for the interest Vincent is showing her.  An intimacy develops between these two lost souls as they begin to explore the city, both pursuing their own individual quests but somehow connected by a common purpose - to make sense of their separate existences.  Dubaï is a strange hybrid of a city, a modern thriving metropolis sitting on the edge of a vast desert.  It is a place where reality and dreams similarly sit side-by-side, each merging into the other so that you can never be sure where one ends and the other begins...