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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

White Nights

Overview of films

  • Remote Control

    The anonymous filmmaker returns to Tehran from Paris for the Iranian elections of 2013. Sitting on the couch with a few acquaintances, she follows

  • Maher’s Middle Eastern Meals

    Every day at IFFR White Nights, he will cook in the tent village in the Museumpark. Boasting an extensive knowledge of Middle Eastern flavours and

  • Callshop Istanbul

    On the border between East and West, Istanbul historically speaking is an intercontinental bridge and still one of the main places for migrants and

  • Music: Ibrahim Keivo Ensemble

    Ibrahim Keivo comes from an Armenian family who escaped the genocide. At an early age, he learned to play the lutes of the region: buzuq, saz, bagh

  • Now Eat My Script

    It all started with the story of an aunt smuggling a sacrificial lamb across the Syrian-Lebanese border in the boot of her car. However, the script

  • Eylül – Ekim 2015, Cizre

    War in Cizre, on the Turkish-Syrian border. Life goes on. The inhabitants film and photograph the consequences of the attacks with their phones. Ar

  • Love, Theft and Other Entanglements

    It almost sounds like a Coen Brothers movie set in the Middle East. The Palestinian car thief Mousa tries to amass as much money as possible to lea

  • Tiger Radio: Kijken

    Today, she talks with photographer Aya Musa. Pull up a chair in the podcast recording about representation. Musa will discuss the depiction of refu

  • Electrical Gaza

    Filmmaker Nashashibi presents Gaza as a place from myth: isolated, suspended in time, difficult to access and highly charged. The accompanying anim

  • Aïssa

    Ghanaian immigrant Aïssa is examined. Is she really a minor as she contends? The doctor clinically records his findings, describing her internal an

  • Ayan and the White Balloon

    This film is part of IFFR White Nights and will be screened daily from 13 to 17 July.The filmmaker (‘the white balloon’) returns from Europe to her

  • Music: DJ Duckfood

    Part of IFFR White Nights at Sunday 17 July from 21:30Duckfood defies categorization. Always on the search for new sounds from around the globe, hi