SAFAR Film Festival, the UK’s largest festival dedicated to cinema from the Arab world, returns to HOME in June 2024.
The 2024 edition features a selection of exciting, new films from the Arab world, in-person Q&As with leading Arab filmmakers, and a first-look at an upcoming UK cinema release.
This year’s festival aims to highlight a range of daily realities being faced across the Arab world and to reflect on how small hopes and bigger dreams co-exist within such contexts.
How is it to be barred entry to your home while you watch war unfold through your phone? How is it to fight for independence as a woman within a maze of patriarchal laws? How does a family adapt when war is looming and an economic crisis is hitting hard? The filmmakers featured in this year’s edition articulately pose such questions and provide timely and personal insights into everyday battles which often remain unseen.
£1 Inspire Tickets are available for SAFAR screenings. Inspire Tickets make our events accessible for community groups, charities and voluntary organisations who wouldn’t ordinarily be able to attend for a variety of reasons. If you work with or know of a group you think would benefit from this, please get in touch: tiffany.bowman@homemcr.org.
SAFAR is supported by the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery, the British Council, the Bagri Foundation and the Barjeel Art Foundation.
In this season
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Bye Bye Tiberias
Set between past and present, Bye Bye Tiberias pieces together images of today, family footage from the nineties and historical archives to portray four generations…
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Goodbye Julia
Set in Khartoum, just before the secession of South Sudan, a married former singer from the north seeks redemption for causing the death of a…
Cinema
The Burdened
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Cinema
Inshallah a Boy
After the sudden death of her husband, working mother Nawal has to fight for her inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in…
Cinema
Life is Beautiful + Q&A
Life is Beautiful is a story of overcoming a life put on hold by international politics and rigid bureaucracy, told from the inside by a…
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