Celebrate AANM Arab Film Festival's 20th Anniversary this year!

The Arab American National Museum proudly hosts its annual Arab Film Festival (AFF), featuring fascinating new titles from one of the most prolific and creative set of filmmakers on the planet. AFF is one of the Museum’s longest-running programs, dating back to its inception in 2005.

AFF showcases Arab and Arab American films for fans of Arabic-language movies and adventurous art-film lovers seeking new perspectives and outside-the-box thinking. Many of these films by both Arab world and Arab American artists are, with few exceptions, unlikely to reach traditional American commercial theaters. Genres include drama, comedy and documentary, in both short-form and feature lengths. Every festival film is subtitled in English, making them accessible to all.

The Arab Film Festival strives to bring you the absolute best films from the Arab world and Arab American community to your doorstep with many films making their Michigan and/or U.S. debut.

We pride ourselves on creating a safe space, a platform for Arab and Arab American films and filmmakers and to give a voice to Arab and Arab American artists and their stories.

Schedule Of events

May 7,2025

6:00Pm - Opening Night: Dinner and A Movie (Lions of Mesopotamia) at AANM

7:00Pm - Opening Night Film: Lions of Mesopotamia at AANM

May 8,2025

7:00Pm - No Other Land at AANM

May 9,2025

7:00Pm - Khartoum at AANM

7:00Pm - AFF in Flint: Khartoum at Comma Bookstore

10:00Pm - Shorts Program: Embracing the Echoes at AANM

May 10,2025

11:00 AM - Shorts Program: Tides of Teenhood at AANM

1:00Pm - Where the Wind Comes From at AANM

3:30Pm - Shorts Program: Rifts and Remedies at AANM

6:00Pm - We Never Left at AANM

8:00Pm - Arab Film Festival Reception: After Dark at AANM

May 11,2025

11:00 AM - Front Row at AANM

1:00Pm - Workshop: Erasure Poetry: The Poetics of Additive Subtraction at AANM

4:30Pm - AFF in Hamtramck: Everybody Loves Touda at Planet Ant Theatre

7:00Pm - Shorts Program: Portraits of Preservation at AANM

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Date: May 7-11,2025

Location: Various locations in Dearborn, MI

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