Abdullah Al-Eyaf (Arabic: عبدالله آل عياف‎; born October 31, 1976) is a Saudi Arabian film director also known as Abdullah Al Eyaf or Abdullah Aleyaf. He has 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 (aka "A Frame"). The third short film he made was the 23-minutes drama Matar (Rain), which was shown in many international film festivals around the world. The last project was the short film "Aayesh" in 2010 which won Gulf Film Festival award for best short film and was well received by the audien