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A conversation with Ziad Doueiri
The Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri visits Oslo next week with his new film, The Insult (no. Fornærmelsen), which is the opening film at the festival.…

Egyptian thriller at this year’s festival
Fares Fares plays the detective, Noredin, in the award-winning thriller The Nile Hilton Incident.

Director Mohamed Siam is our guest at this year’s festival
We are proud to announce that director Mohamed Siam is coming to Oslo in April.
Arabian party at VIPPA
We are kickstarting this year’s festival with a film screening, concert and a magnificent party at Vippa April 13th.

Oscar-nominated director opens Arab Film Days 2018
Ziad Doueiri will open Arab Film Days with his latest film, The Insult.

2017: Conversations with directors and panel conversations
Arab film days is more than just film. In addition to a program consisting of Arab films of outstanding quality, we also have Q&As with directors and…

Opening film: Clash
The opening film of Arab Film Days this year will be Mohamed Diab's latest film: Clash!

Meet the director of Hedi
The award-winning director Mohamed Ben Attia will attend Arab Film Days with his feature film debut.

The Jon Stewart of the Middle East
Meet Bassem Youssef, a talk-show host from Egypt, in a documentary about using humour as a weapon.

Nowhere to Hide
We are happy to announce that we will be screening the award winning documentary Nowhere to Hide at this year’s festival.