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Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim-Opening - 11 Oct
The Arab Film Festival will be opened with the film ‘Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim’ this year. Ingredients: two lingering souls and a goat.
Time: 19:45 -
22:30
Director: Sherif El Bendary
Year: 2016
Country: Egypt
After - 12 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Kaleidoscope
Hani returns to Lebanon, to find his former home town changed into a city of lost souls.
Time: 16:00 -
16:35
Director: Wissam Charaf
Year: 2016
Country: France
Face the Music - 12 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Kaleidoscope
Yousef doesn't like to perform openly anymore after a terrible accident which leaves his face disfigured.
Time: 16:35 -
16:45
Director: Saeed Rashid
Year: 2016
Country: United Arab Emirates
Crack - 12 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Kaleidoscope
To enrich a character in the play she is writing, May enters a mental institution with the help of Radwan
Time: 16:45 -
17:00
Director: Mu'taz Salloum
Year: 2017
Country: Lebanon
Wachma - 12 Oct
The story of a rebellious young man
Time: 17:00 -
19:15
Director: Hamid Benadi
Year: 1971
Country: Morroco
Behind the I…! - 12 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Kaleidoscope
Only poisonous fruits comes from bad seeds.
Time: 17:00 -
17:15
Director: Saad Bin Mohammed & Hisham Abdel Khalek
Year: 2016
Country: France/ Saudi Arabia
Hide Your Metal - 12 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Kaleidoscope
Documentary about heavy metal bands in Jordan
Time: 17:15 -
17:30
Director: Yasmine Mustafa
Year: 2016
Country: Jordan
Jar Full of Fish - 12 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Kaleidoscope
How a small goldfish helps Youssef to find his place in Cairo.
Time: 17:30 -
17:45
Director: Joseph Adel
Year: 2016
Country: Egypt
Until the Birds Return - 12 Oct
Three stories plunge us into the human soul of a contemporary Arab society
Time: 18:30 -
21:00
Director: Karim Moussaoui
Year: 2017
Country: Algieria
Rue de la Victoire - 12 Oct
In his native Tunisia, and later in France with the Cirque Farouche, Mohamed struggles to achieve his dreams and be recognized for who he is.
Time: 19:00 -
20:45
Director: Frédérique Cournoyer Lessard
Year: 2017
Country: Canada
Burning Hope - 12 Oct
An unlikely friendship and the portrait of a fragile country haunted by so many ghosts.
Time: 21:15 -
23:15
Director: Lotfi Achour, Natacha de Pontcharra, Anissa Daoud
Year: 2016
Country: Tunesia
Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim - 12 Oct
The Arab Film Festival will be opened with the film ‘Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim’ this year. Ingredients: two lingering souls and a goat
Time: 21:30 -
23:30
Director: Sherif El Bendary
Year: 2016
Country: Egypt
My Paradise - 13 Oct
Based on the story of a few former classmates pictured in a photo taken 25 years ago, the emergence of the Syrian Revolution is recounted.
Time: 16:00 -
18:00
Director: Ekrem Heydo
Year: 2016
Country: Syria
Until the Birds Return - 13 Oct
Three stories plunge us into the human soul of a contemporary Arab society
Time: 16:00 -
18:20
Director: Karim Moussaoui
Year: 2017
Country: Algeria
Little Eagles - 13 Oct
Mohamed leaves his father to become a filmmaker in Cairo, but in Cairo he finds more of his father, when he discovers parts of his history.
Time: 18:15 -
20:30
Director: Mohamed Rashad
Year: 2016
Country: Egypt/ Lebanon
Mawlana - 13 Oct
His responses on TV reveal a witty and eloquent person against a backdrop of darkness, where power struggles rage.
Time: 18:30 -
21:00
Director: Magdy Ahmed Aly
Year: 2016
Country: Egypt
Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces - 13 Oct
Man loves woman, who needs to marry another man who loves another woman. Will it work out for all of them?
Time: 20:45 -
23:15
Director: Yousry Nasrallah
Year: 2016
Country: Egypt
Al Asleyeen - 13 Oct
Money problems and a suspicious phone will change his life forever.
Time: 21:15 -
23:00
Director: Marwan Hamed
Year: 2017
Country: Egypt
Al Sheikh Noel - 14 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Iraq & Syria
The film tells the story of a Muslim sheikh living with his grandson in recently liberated territories of isis in Iraq.
Time: 14:00 -
14:20
Director: Saad Al Essamys
Year: 2017
Country: Iraq
A Memory in Khaki - 14 Oct
A Syrian account, which, by laying out the past, tells the story of the future
Time: 14:00 -
16:05
Director: Alfoz Tanjour
Year: 2016
Country: Qatar
Cargo - 14 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Iraq & Syria
Fleeing the Syrian War, little Abed and his grandfather follow an uncertain pad to a new future.
Time: 14:20 -
14:40
Director: Karim Rahbani
Year: 2017
Country: Syria
From Hasakah with Love - 14 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Iraq & Syria
A girl lives alone in the city Hasakah, after her whole family has been murdered.
Time: 14:40 -
14:50
Director: Mohammad Farahani
Year: 2017
Country: Syria
Close your eyes..well - 14 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Iraq & Syria
Dreams for a better future from a kid living at a dumpster.
Time: 14:50 -
15:00
Director: Ali Al-Bayati
Year: 2016
Country: Iraq
The Wall - 14 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Iraq & Syria
A story about Syrian refugee woman who strugggling for life in Turkey.
Time: 15:00 -
15:05
Director: Koray Polat
Year: 2017
Country: Turkey/Syria
Abraham - 14 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Iraq & Syria
A Christian family tries to protect their daughter from ISIS.
Time: 15:05 -
15:15
Director: Ali Kareem Obaid
Year: 2016
Country: Italy | Iraq | Germany | United Arab Emirates
Caravan - 14 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Iraq & Syria
A modern day caravan of people in a ordinary traffic jam
Time: 15:15 -
15:25
Director: Suzannah Mirghani
Year: 2016
Country: Qatar
In White - 14 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Mosaic
Her dads funeral forces Lara to come back to Beirut and face all the traditions she tried to leave behind.
Time: 16:00 -
16:15
Director: Dania Bdeir
Year: 2017
Country: Beirut
Mahbas - 14 Oct
During an overnight visit of her daughter’s suitor she so longs for she discovers that he is not the perfect son-in-law.
Time: 16:15 -
17:55
Director: Sophie Boutros
Year: 2016
Country: Lebanon
Carried by the Wind - 14 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Mosaic
Wijdane, a young woman from Tangier, really wants to play soccer.
Time: 16:15 -
16:35
Director: Kevin Le Dortz
Year: 2017
Country: Morocco
Hidden Lust - 14 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Mosaic
Newly wed Radyah discovers a large dreadful box in her husband bedroom.
Time: 16:35 -
16:50
Director: Besoy Youssef
Year: 2017
Country: Egypt
Piece of Wood - 14 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Mosaic
When Adams skateboard gets confiscated by a severity guy, he does several attempts to get it back.
Time: 16:50 -
17:05
Director: Yassin Koptan
Year: 2016
Country: Egypt
Fear: Audibly - 14 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Mosaic
A religious Saudi woman fears a sourceless sound that will end humanity. One day, unexpected guests invade her office space to confirm her fears.
Time: 17:05 -
17:30
Director: Maha Al-Saati
Year: 2017
Country: Saudi Arabia
Jeanne d’Arc Masriya - 14 Oct
We follow in the footsteps of Cairene filmmaker Iman Kamel as she journeys to the Western Desert where she discovers a diary written by a Bedouin girl named Jehanne.
Time: 18:00 -
19:55
Director: Iman Kamel
Year: 2016
Country: Egypt - Germany - Kuwait - Qatar
Fires - 14 Oct
The human story behind the Syrian conflict
Time: 18:00 -
20:05
Director: Muhammad Abdul Aziz
Year: 2016
Country: Syria
Insyriated - 14 Oct
Energetic Oum Yazan is trying desperately to keep together her family life whilst outside a war is raging.
Time: 20:15 -
22:15
Director: Phillipe van Leeuw
Year: 2017
Country: België
Shahira - 14 Oct
An unlikely adventurous friendship between two children
Time: 22:30 -
23:45
Director: Raghida Skaff
Year: 2017
Country: Lebanon
Eccomi..Eccoti - 14 Oct
Two men. Two realities.
Time: 22:45 -
00:15
Director: Raed Rafei
Year: 2016
Country: Lebanon
Respect project - 15 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Made in Holland
Films made by youngsters for Respect festival.
Time: 12:00 -
13:00
Director: various directors
Year: 2017
Country: Netherlands
It’ll be okay I guess - 15 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Made in Holland
Een Syrische vrouw probeert zowel te integreren in Nederland als haar kinderen op te voeden met de Syrische cultuur.
Time: 13:00 -
13:20
Director: Marijn van der Ploeg
Year: 2016
Country: Nederland
Behind the Curtain - 15 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Made in Holland
A girl becomes a victim of social media.
Time: 13:20 -
13:25
Director: Janyar Zakholi
Year: 2017
Country: Netherlands
In Exile - 15 Oct
Short movie: Short Focus: Made in Holland
A mother asks herself if escaping Palestine gave her freedom.
Time: 13:40 -
13:45
Director: Randa Nasser
Year: 2016
Country: The Netherlands
A day for Women - 15 Oct
In one of Egypt’s shabby neighborhoods, a youth center decides to allocate the swimming pool for women only for one day.
Time: 16:50 -
19:00
Director: Kamla Abu Zekri
Year: 2016
Country: Egypt
In Between - 15 Oct
In Between follows three different women in the city of Tel Aviv
Time: 17:00 -
19:00
Director: Maysaloun Hamoud
Year: 2016
Country: Israel/France
Path of Maryam - 15 Oct
A spiritual journey of father and daughter
Time: 19:30 -
21:30
Director: Atia Al-Daraji
Year: 2016
Country: Iraq
