Arab Film Festival Australia

It’s a wrap!!

Drawing to a close in Brisbane last weekend, the Arab Film Festival has wrapped for 2010. Huge congratulations and thanks to our wonderful festival directors Mouna Zaylah and Fadia Abboud, our dedicated AFFA Committee, and the many volunteers whose hard work made the festival possible.

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Filmmakers

Amar Chebib»

Born in Kuwait with a German-Canadian mother and Syrian-French father, Amar Chebib was raised throughout the Arabian-Persian Gulf while receiving a Western education. He started experimenting with filmmaking during his adolescence by contrasting traditional Arab culture with modern Westernisation.


Zayaan Jappie»

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, raised in Johannesburg and Sydney and is currently based in LA. Rima is the first film that she has wrote and directed. She has recently assisted Oscar-nominated Australian director Luke Doolan, and worked in post-production on the indie feature Hesher, which premiered at the Sundance film festival last January.