FIRST SAFAR TICKETS NOW ON SALE 🤝🏾 Have you seen our incredible programme yet? Now you can browse and get your tickets to our first releases, with the rest of the tickets going live towards the end of the week.

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ACROSS THE SEA / LA MER AU LOIN (2024 dir. Said Hamich Benlarbi) Cine Lumiere @ifru_london // 20 June // 6.30pm TICKETS BELOW

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ROOTED RESISTANCE @ICALondon 21 June // 2pm Tickets 👇🏾

WE OPEN WITH NOSTALGIA, WE CLOSE WITH COURAGE Khali Balak Min Zouzou, or Watch Out for ZouZou (1972, El Emam) - the Euro Premiere of the new restoration. 11 June / 6pm / Cine Lumiere, London Sudan, Remember Us (2024, Meddeb)  Closing Night / 28 June / 6pm + Q&A // ICA, London

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It is organised by the @ArabBritishCentre and is supported by the @britishfilminstitute , @britisharts , @bagrifoundation , @asfarifoundation , City of London Corporation and @barjeelart . Presented in partnership with @shubbakfestival @hekayyatna @telfaz11 @gulfphotoplus -

SAFAR Film Festival 2025 runs from 11-28 June with screenings in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Clevedon, Glasgow, Hull, Manchester, Oxford, Leeds, Plymouth, and online with @AflamunaOnline !

Art direction: Tulip Hazbar (@Tuliphazbar) Trailer Edit & Sound Design: Ali J. Dalloul (@Alijdalloul) Animation: David Habchy (@DavidHabchy) from Studio Kawakeb (@StudioKawakeb) Illustration and Typography: Tulip hazbar (@Tuliphazbar)

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FILMMAKERS - it's time. Our Arab Film Development Workshop is back. 6 filmmakers will be selected to take part in a 2-day creative intensive with director and SAFAR co-founder @SaeedTaji , happening 7-8 June. Applications close 16 May. https://t.co/XsmCxgEiJb

Save the date! 📅 SAFAR Film Festival returns 11-28 June 2025 More info coming soon 👀 Join our mailing list here for updates straight to your inbox: https://t.co/QQM3J9VOK1

@ICALondon Phew. So next stop: head to @britishfilminstitute website to see the full programme, book tickets - and live your best culturally-enriched life, ok?

@ICALondon 13. 14. and 15. are part of WONDERING, WANDERING 18 Oct BFI Southbank Explore what it’s like viewing life through a child’s eyes. A SHORT FILM ABOUT KIDS - Palestine DAWN EVERY DAY - Egypt VIBRATIONS FROM GAZA - Palestine

@ICALondon 12. A NIGHT WE HELD BETWEEN (2024) screening with GARANTI 100% KREOL Oct 20 @icalondon Myth, ritual and longing at Palestinian sites intertwine with archival songs and photos. Landscape holds cavernous memory, grief, and strength.

@ICALondon 11. A FIDAI FILM (2024) 20 Oct @icalondon Re-positioning archival fragments and burning through parts of the original image in searing red, A Fidai Film lays bare the looting of Palestinian visual history.

10. DIRECT ACTION (2004) 19 Oct @icalondon Celebrated filmmakers Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell capture the radical visions of environmental activists ZAD (Zone à Défendre) in their everyday communal living. Filmed between 2022 and 2023, and composed of 41 static takes.

Annnd we're not done yet! Here's the last of our @britishfilminstitute round-up for London Film Festival 2024.

@CurzonCinemas @vuecinemas 8. and 9. are part of A STREAM OF ECHOES 18 Oct @icalondon AT THE VERGE OF WORDLESSNESS (2024) Interrogates images in a book on Israeli state formation, questioning what lies beyond the image. AVANT SERIANA BEFORE SERIANA (2024) Studying Algeria’s complex Aurès region.