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Film Festivals
From the internationally renowned Berlinale to smaller festivals revolving around a particular genre or country, Berlin's film festivals offer many highlights for cineastes and movie lovers. more
The Arabian Film Festival (Alfilm) shows over 40 films by Arab directors and from Arab countries that were previously hardly known to European audiences. The festival is organized by the Zentrum für arabische Filmkunst und Kultur e.V., an ideologically and politically independent association. It was founded with the aim of providing a platform for filmmaking from Arab countries in Germany and countering cultural stereotypes about the Arab world with images and stories.