BBC Arabic Festival 2018
BBC Arabic Festival 2018
BBC Arabic Festival 2018 Trailer
Winners 2018
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Best Short Documentary
The Town The Men Left
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Best Reportage
Why?
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Best Feature Documentary
Those Who Remain
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Best Short Film
Silence
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BBC Arabic Best in Journalism Award
Whose Country
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BBC Arabic Young Journalist Award
Ali Alibrahim
Interviews with the rest of the Festival's directors can be seen on the Directors Speak page.
Judges
BBC Arabic Festival 2018 Judges
BBC Arabic Festival 2018 Judges
BBC Arabic Festival 2018 Live Sessions
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Panel Discussions
These live panel discussions took place throughout the Festival and involved directors, filmmakers and industry experts.
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Digital Journalism Day
Text is Dead. Or at least that is what they have been saying since the onset of online news and web-based media.This day-long event demonstrated examples of innovative storytelling created for and consumed via the web and mobile today.
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The Cultural Frontline - Is this a Golden Age for Arab Film?
How has revolution, conflict and social change in the Middle East shaped cinema?
BBC Arabic Young Journalist Award
Winner of the 2018 BBC Arabic Young Journalist Award, Ali Alibrahim. He won for his short documentary, One Day in Aleppo. Ali will receive support for his next project starting summer 2018.
Winner of the 2017 BBC Arabic Young Journalist Award, Mohamed Jabaly in conversation with BBC Global News Presenter, Jackie Leonard. He received equipment and mentoring towards his next project, a feature documentary entitled Stateless. It will be ready in the spring of 2019. Mohamed won for his feature documentary, Ambulance.
To learn more about Mohamed and his new film, click here.
Featured Videos
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Best Feature Documentary Winner
Eliane Raheb - Those Who Remain
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BBC Arabic Best in Journalism Winner
Siam - Whose Country
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Best Short Documentary Winner
Hanan Youssef Abdalla - The Town the Men Left
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Best Reportage Winner
Why? - Ayyob AlQasem, Marwan AlBayani & Ahmed AlThiabet
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Best Short Film Winner
Ali Asgari & Farnoosh Samadi - Silence
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BBC Arabic Young Journalist Award Winner
Ali Alibrahim - One Day in Aleppo
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Musical Guest
Lekhfa
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Trailer
BBC Arabic Festival 2018
Photo Gallery
Festival Guide
The guide for the BBC Arabic Festival 2018 can be downloaded here.