From April 3 to 10, the 10th Arab Film Festival Berlin – ALFILM will be presenting artistically ambitious cinema comprising a selection of current features and documentaries together with shorts and animated works. The films move back and forth between Europe and the Arab World, reflecting on the individual fates of people who live on the margins of society or whose lives have been marked by historical upheaval. Many of the works pose questions about community and change, a blessing and a curse in equal measure.
The ALFILM Shorts explore stories of people at turning points, the experimental short films of “lab/p 3 – poetry in motion” were created in collaboration between German and Egyptian directors and poets.