About Arab Film Days
Join us in celebrating this year's 15th anniversary of Arab Film Days! Experience an extraordinary anniversary edition with over 40 exceptional films from the year's most significant productions combined with retrospectives of unforgettable classics from all previous editions.
Arab Film Days brings you the best films from and about the Arab world. Whether it's big movies that have won prestigious film awards, or small gems that deserve to be brought to light.
Get ready for everything from grippingly beautiful and deeply moving to delightfully funny stories that hit you right in the heart. With a variety of film and international guests, you're in for exciting events and interesting conversations throughout the festival.
Come to cry, laugh, learn, feel community and strength.
Welcome to Arab Film Days at Vika kino, April 2 - 6, 2025.
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 14th time in April 2024.
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.