Screening for children

Hany Abu-Assad - 2015

In the Last Days of the City

Tamer El Said - 2016

Hedi

Mohamed Ben Attia - 2016

Starve Your Dog

Hicham Lasri - 2015

Nawara

Hala Khalil - 2015

Hair

Mahmoud Ghaffari - 2016

Hepta

Hadi El Bagoury - 2016

Going to Heaven 6+

Saeed Salmeen - 2015

Arab Camera x Pantropical

Before the Summer Crowds

Mohamed Khan - 2015

The Curve

Rifqi Assaf - 2015

Al Medina

Omar Shargawi - 2015

House without Roof

Soleen Yusef - 2016

The Past Will Return

Dina Hamza - 2015

Skin

Afraa Batous - 2015

Road to Istanbul

Rachid Bouchareb - 2016

Zinzana

Majid Al Ansari - 2015

Winter

Firas Aladai - 2015

Abdullah

Humaid Al Suwaidi - 2015

Day 1 AFF 2016

Day 2 AFF 2016

Day 3 AFF 2016

Day 4 AFF 2016

Arab Film Festival 2017

11 – 15 October 2017

Cinerama Rotterdam

Screenwriting lab 2017

Nederlands

العربية

From North Africa through West Asia to the Gulf States

The Arab Film Festival is committed to showing not only the politics, daily life and views, but also the beauty, artistry and humor of the Arab world. The Arab Film Festival presents the Arab world from within through its annual film festival in Rotterdam and various other events throughout the year.

Upcoming events

21 Sep

Screening @ CineNoord

01 Oct

Screening @ KINO

11 Oct

Arab Film Festival 2017

Woman power

On 30 March the Arab Film Festival screens, in cooperation with CineNoord, ‘Rafea: Solar Mama’ (English subtitled). This documentary tells the story of the illiterate Bedouin Rafea who is offered the chance to follow a training to become a solar engineer. Vegan Bedouin bites will be served as a prelude to the film screening. CineNoord, Bergweg 283 Tickets

Virtual Dinner Project

Arab Film Festival partners with the Virtual Dinner Project. Two groups of people from different countries get to know each other during a shared Skype dinner. Basic premise: it is harder to ignore or harm those we have broken bread with. Even people from countries in conflict with each other are brought together this way.

Call for entries 2017

The Arab Film Festival is now accepting entries for the upcoming festival edition. The Arab Film Festival will take place from 11 until 15 October. Filmmakers wishing to submit their film for the festival are requested to apply via the ‘Entry 2017’ button above. Please read the entry conditions before submission.

The Idol @ Erasmus University 29/3

In March 2017 the Arab Film Festival will organize a screening of the film ‘The Idol’ in cooperation with Erasmus University. Check the upcoming events below for more information.

Refugee documentary 18/2

In cooperation with Cerutti Film the Arab Film Festival organizes the screening of the film ‘In Procedure’. This documentary portrays the life of the Syrian refugee Hassan in the Netherlands and will be screened on 18 February in the ‘Groothandelsgebouw’ in Rotterdam.