May 30 - June 02
LantarenVenster - Pathé Schouwburgplein
Rotterdam
Take My Breath
Best Film Award
Nada Mezni Hafaiedh – Tunisia
2023 – 96
min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
The Teacher
Audience Award
Best Screenplay Award
Farah Nabulsi – Palestine & UK
2023 – 115 min
English & Arabic spoken with
English subtitles
My Dad Is Not Dead
Best Director Award
Adil El Fadili – Morocco
2023 – 94 min
Arabic & French spoken with English subtitles
Night Courier
Best Actor Award
Ali Kalthami – Saudi Arabia
Ali Kalthami – 2023 – 111 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Backstage
Best Actress Award
Afef Ben Mahmoud – Morocco
Khalil Benkirane – 2023 – 102 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
From Abdul to Leila
Best Documentary Award
Leila Al Bayaty – Belgium, Germany, Saudi Arabia
2024 – 92 min – documentary
Arabic, French & English spoken with English subtitles
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
Best Documentary Director
Cyril Aris – Lebanon
2023 – 87 min – documentary
Arabic, French & English spoken with English subtitles
Arab Shorts 2024
Best Short Film Award
Closure – Mooney Abu Samra – Jordan
Various short films from Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Jordan & Saudi Arabia
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Six Feet Over
Karim Bensalah – Algeria – 2023 – 96 min
Arabic & French spoken with English subtitles
Q
Jude Chehab – Lebanon- 2023 – 93 min – documentary
Arabic & English spoken with English subtitles
Goodbye Julia
Mohamed Kordofani – Sudan & Egypt – 2023 – 120 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
The Back Row
Sherif Mohsen – Egypt – 2023 – 117 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Animalia
Sofia Alaoui – Morocco – 2023 – 90 min
Amazigh, Arabic & French spoken with English subtitles
Flight 404
Hani Khalifa – Egypt – 2024 – 92 min
English & Arabic spoken with
English subtitles
LYD
Rami Younis, Sarah Ema Friedland – Palestine – 2023 – 78 min – documentary
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Who Do I Belong To
Meryam Joobeur – Tunisia, France & Canada – 2024 – 117 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Behind the Mountains
Mohamed Ben Attia – Tunisia, France, Belgium, Italy, Saudi Arabia & Qatar – 2023 – 98 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Déserts
Faouzi Bensaïdi – Morocco – 2023 – 125 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Fasel Men El Lahazat El Lazeeza
Ahmed El Gendy – Egypt – 2024 – 120 min
Arabic sproken with English subtitles
Hajjan
Abu Bakr Shawky – Saudi Arabia – 2023 – 120 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Tell Them About Us
Rand Beiruty – Germany, Jordan – 2024 – 92 min – documentary
Arabic & German spoken with English subtitles
Saturday - 01 June
Studio De Bakkerij - Rotterdam
Closure
Best Short Film Award
Closure – Mooney Abu Samra – Jordan
2023 – 23 min – Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Somewhere in Between
Dahlia Nemlich – France, Egypt, Lebanon – 2023 – 15 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Farewell
Ibrahim Hisham Melhem – Syria – 2023 – 24 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
We Are Not Friends
Fahad Haddadi – Saudi Arabia – 2023 – 11 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Phone Breaker
Hamza Atifi – Morocco – 2023 – 25 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Bottles
Yassine El Idrissi
Morocco – 2023 – 18 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
The Woodland
Firas Al Taybeh – Jordan – 2023 – 25 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Wishes For My Heart
Shireen Magdy Diab – Egypt – 2023 – 20 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
60 Egyptian Pounds
Amr Salama – Egypt – 2023 – 20 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
I Promise You Paradise
Morad Mostafa – Egypt, France, Qatar – 2023 – 25 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles
Antidote
Hassan Saeed Madlough –
Saudi Arabia – 2023 – 15 min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles