IFI & Dublin Arabic Film Festival 2018

The Dublin Arabic Film Festival 2017 will run from October 5th to 7th 2018.  
DAFF 2018: Looking for Oum Kulthum
THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT Mitra is an artist in her forties who embarks on her dream project of making a film about legendary Egyptian singer Oum Kulthum (1900-1975), whose…
Friday 5th Oct 2018 20.00 [SOLD OUT]
DAFF 2018: Sheikh Jackson
Khaled (Ahmed El-Fishawy) is a respected junior cleric in Alexandria whose seemingly stable life becomes derailed by the news of Michael Jackson’s death in June 2009. Succumbing to long-suppressed feelings…
Saturday 6th Oct 2018 14.00
DAFF 2018: The Insult
A minor altercation escalates into a dispute that comes to encapsulate the lasting legacy of the Lebanese Civil War in Ziad Doueiri’s incendiary drama, a recent Oscar nominee for Best…
Saturday 6th Oct 2018 16.10
DAFF 2018: House in the Fields
A documentary portrait of an isolated rural Amazigh village in the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, House in the Fields is a portrait of a community that has remained unchanged…
Sunday 7th Oct 2018 14.00
DAFF 2018: Until the Birds Return
The paths of three cross-generational characters overlap and interconnect in Karim Moussaoui’s Until the Birds Return, an ambitious triptych that attempts to gauge the mood of contemporary Algerian society from…
Sunday 7th Oct 2018 16.00