ARAB Experimental Film Festival

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we open a critical space for filmmakers and artists who challenge dominant narratives, experiment with form, and expand the language of the moving image in dialogue with contemporary cinema, rethink how images from the region are seen, and historicized.

Thank you all to make that happened, ausland, KollektivBar ES, Villa Kuriosum. We are open for feedback and suggestions ...
22/10/2025

Thank you all to make that happened, ausland, KollektivBar ES, Villa Kuriosum. We are open for feedback and suggestions for the next year.

Thank you all for coming today, and waiting for you tomorrow KollektivBar ES ❤️
17/10/2025

Thank you all for coming today, and waiting for you tomorrow KollektivBar ES ❤️

Tomorrow our first day, waiting for you all ❤️
16/10/2025

Tomorrow our first day, waiting for you all ❤️

We are happy to announce our first programme, our ARAB Experimental Film Festival  in Berlin in 2025, the Arab Experimen...
14/10/2025

We are happy to announce our first programme, our ARAB Experimental Film Festival in Berlin in 2025, the Arab Experimental Film & Moving Image established to open a critical and creative space for Arab filmmakers and artists who challenge dominant narratives, experiment with form, and expand the language of the moving image in dialogue with global contemporary cinema. The festival emerges from an anthropological and political need to rethink how images from the region are produced, seen, and historicized.

🎬 Day 3 — Sunday, October 19, 2025.Vil la Kuriosum Scheffelstraße 21, 10367 Berlin🕔 17:00–19:00Looking for Mohamma Hesen...
14/10/2025

🎬 Day 3 — Sunday, October 19, 2025.

Vil la Kuriosum

Scheffelstraße 21, 10367 Berlin

🕔 17:00–19:00

Looking for Mohamma Hesen – by Hani El-Moustafa · Egypt · 2025 · 4 min
I thought I was going to make a poetic film with my brother – by Ahmed Alkayal, Egypt- 2024 · 44 min
The Monkey – by Bishoy Adel · Egypt · 2024 · 13 min
News from Rmeileh – by Marwan Hamdan · Lebanon · 2025 · 28 min
Congrats on the Renovations – by Ahmed Rahal · Egypt · 2025 · 8 min
☕ Break — 19:00–19:30

🎥 19:30–22:00

Those Who Survived the Heat – by Rowan Aldib · Egypt · 2022 · 10 min
Chez Gabi – by Islam Kamal · Egypt · 2024 · 25 min
Nagy Lighter Shop – by Youssef Sherif Nagy · Egypt · 2025 · 15 min
Rain Ticket – by Abdallah Miniawy · France · 2024 · 16 min
Ballon – by Ahmed Osama · Egypt · 2025 · 6 min
A Tale of Dust, Water & Travel – by Mohamed Elganoby · Egypt · 2025 · 6 min

Loop screening from 5 PM to 10 pm

Who Carries the Gaze- Video Essays
The production of a workshop curated and moderated by Salma El-Tarzi, and organized by Cimatheque Alternative Film Centre in Cairo · Egypt · 2025 · 45 min

Video essays of

Ahmed Al-Sa’aty

Ahmed Wael

Amal Shafek

Antonious Bassily

Esraa

Farah Desouky

Farah Hallaba

Hani Sami

Nour Labib

Salma Enani

Suha Belal

Yumna Elmazny

Salma Ayman

10:00 PM

Closing ceremony and concert by Object Obscure
Samir Nabil

Day 2 — Saturday, October 18, 2025 · ES KollektivbarPflügerstraße 52, 12047 Berlin🕔 17:00–19:00Wings – by Redha Menassel...
11/10/2025

Day 2 — Saturday, October 18, 2025 · ES Kollektivbar

Pflügerstraße 52, 12047 Berlin
🕔 17:00–19:00
Wings – by Redha Menassel · Algeria / France · 2024 ·52

Ghaly – by Karim Khazan · Egypt · 2024 · 15 min

Les âmes des arches – by Hicham Touilik · Morocco · 2025 · 3 min

What if we become happy? – by Julie-Yara Atz · Switzerland / Lebanon · 2025 · 30 min

☕ Break — 19:00–19:30
🎥 19:30–21:00
Cairo Tea Factory – by Ahmed Farrag · Egypt · 2025 · 22 min

MONAD – by Mohamed Elyes Kefi · Tunisia · 2025 · 12 min

Passion – by Marwan Hamdan · Lebanon · 2025 · 14 min

1978 – by Muriel Aboulrouss · Lebanon · 2024 · 8 min

Deadlift – by Adham Aldimashki · Lebanon · 2024 · 5 min
Never Leave My Post Again – by Shadi Farid · Germany · 2021 · 8 min

Mind issues - by Yasser Abaas - Egypt - 2024 - 13 mins

Arab Experimental film and moving image festival -Berlin 2025 October DAY ONE · Friday, October 17, 2025. Ausland Lychen...
11/10/2025

Arab Experimental film and moving image festival -Berlin 2025 October
DAY ONE · Friday, October 17, 2025.

Ausland
Lychener Str. 60, 10437 Berlin

All films with English subtitles
🕔 17:00–19:00
already dead – Dir: Ghada Sayegh · Lebanon · 2024 · 7 min

She said no – Dir: Sondos Shabayek · Germany / Egypt · 2023 · 10 min

Camp – Dir: Peter Freund · USA · 2011 · 7 min

I Left For You – Dir: Manar El-Zohery · Egypt · 2025 · 3 min

Solitude vol.1 Shaoul – Dir: Hossam Abu-elhassan · Egypt / Lebanon · 2025 · 4 min

☕ Break — 19:00 to 19:30
🎥 19:30–22:00
Re-Mote El-Television – Dir: Samar El-Hendawi · Egypt · 2023 · 12 min

Polytemporal Oscillations – Dir: Abdelrahman Hassan · Switzerland · 2025 · 15 min

Mama – Dir: Summer Elfeky · Egypt · 2025 · 3 min

Is it war? – Dir: Timeea Mohamed Ahmed · Sudan · 2025 · 6 min

Arab Experimental film and moving image festival -Berlin 2025 October DAY ONE · Friday, October 17, 2025 · auslandLychen...
11/10/2025

Arab Experimental film and moving image festival -Berlin 2025 October
DAY ONE · Friday, October 17, 2025 · ausland
Lychener Str. 60, 10437 Berlin

All films with English subtitles
🕔 17:00–19:00
already dead – Dir: Ghada Sayegh · Lebanon · 2024 · 7 min

She said no – Dir: Sondos Shabayek · Germany / Egypt · 2023 · 10 min

Camp – Dir: Peter Freund · USA · 2011 · 7 min

I Left For You – Dir: Manar El-Zohery · Egypt · 2025 · 3 min

Solitude vol.1 Shaoul – Dir: Hossam Abu-elhassan · Egypt / Lebanon · 2025 · 4 min

☕ Break — 19:00 to 19:30
🎥 19:30–22:00
Re-Mote El-Television – Dir: Samar El-Hendawi · Egypt · 2023 · 12 min

Polytemporal Oscillations – Dir: Abdelrahman Hassan · Switzerland · 2025 · 15 min

Mama – Dir: Summer Elfeky · Egypt · 2025 · 3 min

Is it war? – Dir: Timeea Mohamed Ahmed · Sudan · 2025 · 6 min

New updates for the dates and the deadline OPEN CALL  Arabic below .Arab Experimental Film & Moving Image Festival – Fir...
14/09/2025

New updates for the dates and the deadline
OPEN CALL

Arabic below .
Arab Experimental Film & Moving Image Festival – First Edition
Berlin, 17 till 19 October 2025.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the first edition of the Arab Experimental Film & Moving Image Festival, taking place in Berlin 2025.

This festival is conceived as a platform for formally ambitious, socially and politically sensitive, and critically engaged works from artists and filmmakers with connections to the Arab world and worldwide. It is dedicated to expanding the conversation around the moving image—one that is not limited by genre or geography, but attentive to process, poetics, and the unstable boundaries of the image itself.
We are particularly interested in works that defy conventional cinematic expectations—whether through fragmentation, abstraction, personal documentary, archival play, hybrid fiction, or material experimentation. The festival aims to foreground artistic practices that treat the moving image not only as a medium of representation, but as a site of inquiry, rupture, and reconfiguration.
This first edition will include screenings, installations, discursive sessions, and performative formats. The focus is not on industry, but on the urgency of independent voices and evolving aesthetic vocabularies—those that speak from the margins, but not only about them.

In recognition of the diversity of linguistic and cultural positions within and around Arab artistic production, there are two application pathways:
For works by Arabic-speaking artists and filmmakers, please use this
submission form:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/mobile/my-drive?usp=forms_web

For works by non-Arabic-speaking practitioners working within or in dialogue with Arab contexts, please use this

submission form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqojl83Bf9CH3AdxkGFo6laVS838AYhMX6o8d8WRAnZnxZaA/viewform?usp=preview

The festival is founded by Maamoun Azmy, and Cinemate Productions is responsible for the executive production and curatorial framework.
We welcome contributions across film, video, essay, installation, single-channel, expanded cinema, and other moving image practices.
Deadline for submissions: 30.09.2025
For inquiries and information:

[email protected]

We invite you to take part in shaping a space for critical reflection, aesthetic risk, and shared attention.

دعوة لتقديم الأعمال
مهرجان الفيلم التجريبي والصورة المتحرّكة العربي – النسخة الأولى
برلين، اكتوبر 2025

يسرّنا الإعلان عن انطلاق النسخة الأولى من مهرجان الفيلم التجريبي والصورة المتحرّكة العربي، والذي سيُقام في برلين خلال اكتوبر 2025.

يأتي هذا المهرجان كمنصة للأعمال الطموحة شكليًا، والحسّاسة اجتماعيًا وسياسيًا، والمُنخرطة نقديًا، والتي يُنتجها فنانون وصنّاع أفلام على صلة بالعالم العربي، في الداخل والخارج. يهدف المهرجان إلى توسيع الحوار حول الصور المتحرّكة—حوار لا تحدّه الأنواع السينمائية أو الجغرافيات، بل ينفتح على العملية الإبداعية، وحدود الصورة المتغيّرة وغير المستقرة.

نبحث بشكل خاص عن الأعمال التي تتجاوز التوقعات السينمائية التقليدية—سواءً من خلال التفكيك، التجريد، التوثيق الشخصي، اللعب بالأرشيف، الخيال الهجين، أو التجريب المادي. يركّز المهرجان على الممارسات الفنية التي ترى في الصورة المتحرّكة أكثر من مجرّد وسيط تمثيلي، بل فضاءً للطرح والتشكيك وإعادة التكوين.

تشمل النسخة الأولى عروضًا سينمائية، وتركيبات بصرية، وجلسات نقاشية، وصيغًا أدائية متنوعة. لا يركّز المهرجان على الصناعة السينمائية بقدر ما يحتفي بإلحاح الأصوات المستقلة وبتطوّر القواميس الجمالية—تلك التي تنطلق من الهامش، دون أن تقتصر عليه.

وإيمانًا بتعدّد المواقع اللغوية والثقافية داخل الإنتاج الفني العربي وما حوله، يوفّر المهرجان مسارين للتقديم:

للفنانين وصنّاع الأفلام الناطقين بالعربية، يُرجى استخدام هذا الرابط للتقديم:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/mobile/my-drive?usp=forms_web

للممارسين غير الناطقين بالعربية الذين يعملون ضمن أو في حوار مع السياقات العربية، يُرجى استخدام هذا الرابط:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqojl83Bf9CH3AdxkGFo6laVS838AYhMX6o8d8WRAnZnxZaA/viewform?usp=preview

أسّس المهرجان مأمون عزمي، وتتولى شركة Cinemate Productions الإنتاج التنفيذي والإطار التنظيمي والقيّم الفني.

نرحّب بالمشاركات عبر أشكال الفيلم والفيديو، المقالة البصرية، التركيبات، السينما الموسّعة، القناة الأحادية، وغيرها من ممارسات الصورة المتحرّكة.

الموعد النهائي للتقديم: 30 سبتمبر 2025
للاستفسارات والمعلومات:
📩 [email protected]

ندعوكم للمساهمة في خلق فضاء للتأمل النقدي، والمغامرة الجمالية، والانتباه المشترك.

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Lychener Strasse 60
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