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 […]
Gain an insight into the daily realities of healthcare workers in Gaza in a charity screening of Mohamed Jabaly’s award-winning documentary Ambulance (2016), raising money for the Health Workers for Palestine Solidarity Fund – supporting the bereaved families of those killed. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah. BOOK […]
The UK’s largest festival of Arab cinema returns for its 10th edition from 11-28 June. This year’s SAFAR programme spans decades, geographies and genres, and speaks urgently to the present while excavating the past. It presents cinema that bears witness, that dares to remember and that subverts expectation. From intimate social critique and stark reflections […]
Join Comma Press and the Arab British Centre to welcome celebrated Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim. Hassan will be discussing his latest book, Sololand (trans. Jonathan Wright), a collection of three darkly funny novellas set in Iraq and northern Europe. The characters in these stories all find themselves in impossible positions – from the ISIS cook […]
The Q&A event, Stories from the Satellite Dish, took place at Mimosa House on 31st May, to celebrate Dalia al-Dujaili’s newly published memoir Babylon, Albion and explore its crossovers with Sarah Al-Sarraj’s Limbs of a Lunar Disc. Chaired by Jessica El Mal, the conversation spanned themes of migration, ecology and spirituality, discussing how stories echo […]
Through workshops in five museums across England, along with an open call, the Arab British Centre and Tatreez Collective aim to create several large-scale Cypress tree patchworks – a powerful symbol of hope and resilience in Palestinian culture – each made up of 100+ individually stitched Tatreez panels. Your contribution will be vital to this […]