The San Diego Arab Film Festival is back for 2025 with live, in-person presentations of feature length and short films at the Museum of Photographic Arts. The festival will open on Friday, April 4, and present 8 screenings, each showcasing one feature film and one short film (except for one that has 2 shorts), from across the Arab World. Each evening, the festival will also offer cafeteria-style Arabic dinner.
This year we have decided to emphasize films from or about countries that are under attack: Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Our opening and closing night features are from Palestine (including the Academy Award winner No Other Land), and each screening includes a short film from or about Palestine–including a powerful film about Gaza submitted by a filmmaker in Iran. The Festival also includes films from Egypt and Tunisia, both of which were submitted to the Oscars in the International Film category, and one from Algeria, a docu-drama about Frantz Fanon set at the beginning of the Algerian revolution.
We are excited to bring these films to the San Diego community!
Admission/Cost: $12 (Festival Passes available)
Location:
Museum of Photographic Arts
Balboa Park
San Diego, CA
Dates and times (of the first screening of the day:
Friday, April 4 - 7:20 PM
Saturday, April 5 - 6:10 PM
Friday, April 11 - 7:20 PM
Saturday, April 12 - 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 13 - 5:00 PM
