About Arab Film Days
Arab Film Days brings you the best films from and about the Arab world. Whether they are major films that have won prestigious awards, or small cinematic gems that deserve to be brought into the light.
Get ready for everything from deeply moving and beautifully touching to hilarious stories that strike right at the heart. With a diversity of films and international guests, there are exciting events and interesting conversations throughout the entire festival.
The 14th edition of Arab Film Days will be held at Vika Kino on March 10th - 14th 2024.
Arab Film Days is an annual film festival in Norway exclusively screening films from and about the Arab world. The festival launched in 2011 and was held for the 13th time in March 2023, with over 6300 visitors.
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:
- Contribute to diversity in cinema by presenting the best and most interesting of Arab feature films and documentaries from the past year, in addition to the classic film heritage in the region.
- To highlight current social and political issues in the region, combining film screenings with talks and debates.
- To support independent Arab filmmakers by presenting their films, inviting them to Norway and initiating meetings with Norwegian film industry and producers.
- Fill a gap in the programming of Norwegian cinemas and the larger cultural scene, by screening films that do not get ordinary cinema distribution, putting them into a larger context and present them in a frame that audience appreciate.
Key figures Arab Film Days 2023:
- 6311 audiences
- 24 films
- 6 international guests