
RAFF 2024 Awards
Feature Film Awards
Documentary Film Awards
Short Film Award
Audience Award

Masterclass with the Egyptian star Ahmed Helmy
Discover the secrets of acting success!

Panel Discussion: “Film as Nonviolent Resistance”
How the filmmakers use film as a form of social and political commentary

Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
Best Documentary Director
Cyril Aris – Lebanon
2023 – 87 min – documentary
Arabic, French & English spoken with English subtitles

Take My Breath
Best Film Award
Nada Mezni Hafaiedh – Tunisia
2023 – 96
min
Arabic spoken with English subtitles

The Teacher
Audience Award
Best Screenplay Award
Farah Nabulsi – Palestine & UK
2023 – 115 min
English & Arabic spoken with
English subtitles

My Dad Is Not Dead
Best Director Award
Adil El Fadili – Morocco
2023 – 94 min
Arabic & French spoken with English subtitles
Rotterdam Arab Film Festival developed from the port city of Rotterdam into an annual International festival devoted for Middle Eastern & North African films and related activities.
When?
June, 2025
Where?
LantarenVenster
Otto Reuchlinweg 996
3072 MD Rotterdam
Verhalenhuis Belvédère
Rechthuislaan 1
3072 LB Rotterdam







The Arab Film Festival takes you on a cinematic journey through the cultural, political, social
and artistic alleys of the Arab world in more than thirty films.
but above all the beauty, art, culture and zest for life of the people who live there.
you will get to know the Arab world (even) better.
But film, one of the most beautiful art forms in the world if you ask me, prospers:
mystery, social issues and complex love stories produce the most beautiful films.