The Calgary Arab Film Nights Festival
Some founding members of our team have been bringing Arab film to Calgarians for over a decade now! The current version of the film festival, Calgary Arab Film Nights, is now in its tenth year. Over the past decade we have been proud to showcase Arab culture through dozens of films from a variety of countries and genres, hosting thought-provoking discussions, and offering authentic food, music, and visual art. In 2020, we even expanded our offerings to all of Western Canada through our virtual film lineup. We are thrilled to once again show the diversity, beauty, and rich culture and history of the Arab world, and bring either a piece of home or a brand new experience to Calgarians.
2025
The Calgary Arab Film Nights Festival is back this year WITH A BANG!
Check the Final Program & Purchase your Tickets
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The festival will be organized at the Globe Cinema October 3-5
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The Opening Night “Canadian Eye on the Arab World” will witness the performance of the band “Walker and the Tribe” as a part of the commitment of the Calgary Arab Arts & Culture Society to social justice.
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The Calgary Arab Film Nights Festival will have, for the first time, a “Trailer Night” at the Confluence, Burnswest Theatre, on September 21 at 1800. It will have Food & Music offered ..
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The Calgary Arab Film Nights Festival will partner with two great festivals to screen the an Iraqi and a Syrian films
CJFF
CIFF
Festival Launch Party
At the Calgary Justice Film Festival -
Saturday, November 8, 2025
9:00 PM
Upper Barracks
The Confluence
At the Calgary International Film Festival
At Cineplex Chinook
Sep 22, 2025, 7:15 PM - 9:05 PM
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At Cineplex Chinook
Sep 26, 2025, 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM
1st Trailer Night
At the Confluence,
Burnswest Theatre.
Sunday, September 21 6:00 PM
The 14th CAFN
October 3-5
At the Globe Cinema
Our 1st Ever "Trailer Night"
Trailers of the Festival Films
Festival's Opening Night
"Canadian Eye on the Arab World"
Festival Lineup
Thank You For Banking With Us! (Palestine)
Sun Oct 5 @ 3:30 pm
Norah
(Saudi Arabia)
Sat Oct 4 @ 6:00 pm
Just Us Girls
(Egypt)
Snow White
(Egypt)
Sat Oct 4 @ 3:00 pm
Sudan, Remember Us!
(Sudan)
Is It War?
(Sudan)
Songs of Adam
(Iraq)
Sun Oct 5 @ 4:00 pm
Disorder
(Lebanon)
Sat Oct 4 @ 9:00 pm
Sun Oct 5 @ 6:30 pm
Front Row
(Algeria)
Sun Oct 5 @ 12:30 pm
A Bird From Paradise
(Tunisia)
Umm Salama The Matchmaker
(UAE)
Sat Oct 4 @ 3:30 pm
Big Little Women
(Egypt/Switzerland)
Sat Oct 4 @ 6:30 pm
Arab Shorts
Saturday
October 4
1:00 PM - 2:25 PM
Upstairs Theatre
Shame
(Lebanon/Spain)
Ladies Coffee
(UK)
A Promise to the Sea
(Egypt/Sweden)
A Beautiful Excuse for a Deadly Sin
(Bahrain)
Mixed Signals
UAE
The Chant
Jordan
Palestinian Shorts
Sunday
October 5
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Main Floor Theatre
Khaled & Nema
Maqluba
Cultivating Resistance
The Time We Meet
Is Anyone Alive?
Born a Celebrity
Post-Film Speakers
2024
For internal re-organization, this year, this year’s weekend festival was replaced by a Partnership to play a film at the Calgary Justice Film Festival. The Syrian film “Black Rain in My Eyes” was supported and followed by a discussion where the Calgary Arab Arts & Culture Society’s Chairperson, Mr. Moness Rizkalla, shared the stage with the Artistic Director of the Lunch Box Theatre, Ms. Bronwyn Steinberg who led an eye opening discussion after screening the film, Israelism.
2023
2022
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2021
2020
Arab 2SLGBTQI+ in Cooperation with the
Calgary Queer Society’s Fairytale Film Festival
2019
For the first time, the Calgary Arab Film Nights Festival will have Sudanese & Yemeni features .. and also for the first time includes a Tunisian horror movie in its selection.
2016
Before the Calgary Arab Film Nights Festival .. it was the Calgary Arab Film Festival
Three years before the founding of the Calgary Arab Arts & Culture Society, the founders were part of the short-lived Calgary Arab Film Festival. During the three years of the lifetime of the earlier organization, three copies of the Arab Film Festival were organized.
