Welcome to each one of you. Here is Oran with its streets enlightened with the stars who have to shine at our festival here in Oran. Here it is ornamenting itself not for you but with you and blossoms into a capital of Arab cinema ...
The Golden Ahaggar Awards ceremony tonight.
This evening at the Théâtre de Plein Air Hasni Cheggroune will be awarded the 7 Golden Ahaggar Awards for Feature Film with an individual value of 50 000 USD.
The Ahaggar Golden Pen Award tonight
Tonight will be awarded the prize for the Ahaggar Golden Pen for the best film critic article at the Outdoor theatre Hasni Cheggroune.
Tonight's closing concert.
Cheb Billal will be the singer tonight, 30 July 2009, to celebrate the closing of the third International Arab Film Festival...
Hamraoui Habib Chawky "The festival is a total success"
The President of the Festival Habib Hamaraoui Chawky welcomed at the conference that was held this afternoon at the Sheraton Hotel, the success achieved at all levels by the festival and remarkable evolution in the quality of Arab cinema shown by the movies shown over the pqst six days.
Closing of the competition for feature films yesterday
Yesterday’s evening ended the official competition of feature films with the screening of Dukan Shahata by Khaled Youcef and Casanegra by Noureddine Lakhmari in presence of a large audience among which were many and guests the jury .
Closing of the competition for short films yesterday.
The closing of the official competition of short films was made today with the screening of three films at the Cinematheque...
Antishal Al Tamimi, President of the Arab Cinema Festival of Rotterdam, Art Director of the Iraqian Short Films Festival
"We insisted during the meeting on the critical need for better coordination between Arab countries and the presentation of a complementary work to achieve better results..."
Suheir Abdelkader, Director of Cairo's International Cinema Festival
"We have a serious need to ensure that Arab films are present at festivals that we organize."
Members of the Jury
They are professional cinema artists with a singular and objective vision on modern cinema. There are seven of them in the jury for long feature films and five for short feature films.
Films in Competition
The competing films must have been produced between 2008 and 2009. The participating countries can submit several cinematographic works.
The Tributes
The festival will honor for its third editions several major figures that contributed to value and develop the Arab 7th art.
The Festival Program
Here are the times of film screenings, seminars, cine buses, press conferences…during the Festival.





