About the festival

About Arab Film Days

Arab Film Days is an annual film festival in Norway exclusively screening films from and about the Arab world. The festival launched in 2011. The 9th edition of the festival was held March 20–24, 2019 and was visited by more than 6500 audiences. The festival in 2020 was cancelled due to Covid-19, but part of the programme was screened during the digital edition of Films from the South in November–December 2020. 

The 13th edition of Arab Film Days is held at Vika kino on March 15th–19th 2023.

Through screenings, debates and meetings with filmmakers from around the world, Arab Film Days is an important arena of film cultural exchange. The festival is organized by The Oslo Festival Agency (Stiftelsen Festivalkontoret), which also organizes the film festivals Films from the South and Oslo Pix.

Arab Film Days aim to:

Key figures Arab Film Days 2019: