SAFAR Film Festival 2025 comes to Oxford, presenting cinema from across the Arab world. Featuring two poignant and incredibly relevant documentaries with coinciding Q&A events coming to audiences at Ultimate Picture Palace. A State of Passion (2024) After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al […]
SAFAR Film Festival 2025 comes to Brimingham, presenting cinema from across the Arab world. Featuring an Egyptian feature film and a poignant Palestinian documentary coming to audiences at Plymouth Arts Centre. The Tale of Daye’s Family (2024) Daye is a 14-year-old albino boy from Nubia with a golden voice, who dreams of becoming a singer […]
SAFAR Film Festival 2025 returns to Birmingham, presenting cinema from across the Arab world. Featuring two poignant and incredibly relevant documentaries with coinciding Q&A events coming to audiences at Midlands Arts Centre and Mockingbird Cinema. Sudan Remember Us (2024) Following Shajane, Maha, Muzamil, and Khattab: four young Sudanese activists in their twenties, these politically active […]
SAFAR Film Festival 2025 is coming to Manchester, presenting cinema from across the Arab world. This year’s festival is bringing documentaries and special events to Contact Theatre! Unspoken Silences: Reclaiming Colonial Archives of Palestine A special cine-concert experience alongside a screening of the short film The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing. How do we go about […]
SAFAR Film Festival 2025 is coming to Leeds, presenting cinema from across the Arab world. This year’s festival is bringing newly restored vintage cinema and a Palestinian documentary to Hyde Park Picture House. A State of Passion (2024) After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s […]
SAFAR Film Festival 2025 is coming to Cardiff, presenting cinema from across the Arab world. This year’s festival is bringing newly restored vintage cinema, feature films, documentaries and Q&As to Chapter Arts, Cardiff! The Village Next to Paradise (2024) In a picturesque coastal Somali village, named Paradise, a family is forced to reckon with the […]
SAFAR Film Festival 2025 is coming to Hull, presenting cinema from across the Arab world. This year’s festival is bringing a powerful Palestinian documentary and a Palestinian feature film to the audiences of Hull Independent Cinema. Thank You for Banking with Us! (2024) In Ramallah, estranged sisters Mariam and Noura reunite after their father’s death […]
SAFAR Film Festival 2025 comes to Curzon Clevedon, presenting a poignant Palestinian documentary. A State of Passion (2024) will be showing to our audiences in Clevedon as part of this year’s festival. After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, […]
In conversation with Limbs of the Lunar Disc, Ripples Across Different Timelines took place at Mimosa House on 27th May. Iranian sound artist Gisou Golshani performed a sonic conjuration inspired by ancient methods of timekeeping native to Iran such as the water clock agrarian technology, giving an audiological dimension to the time-travelling nomadic explored in Separated […]
Gulf Photo Plus (GPP), SAFAR Film Festival, and Peckham 24 are teaming up to present Slidefest SAFAR—an evening of powerful visual storytelling spotlighting the spirit of resistance across five countries: Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen. Bringing together compelling presentations by artists from these regions, the event will reflect on collective struggles and solidarities in the […]