As of today, Casa Árabe has its own channel on the online movie streaming platform Filmin. By doing this, the two entities have joined forces to turn television and movie theater screens into a window through which viewers can enjoy the latest in Arab cinema.

Casa Árabe’s new channel on Filmin will allows us to show a significant sampling of the most recent Arab films, currently organized by geographical region, available to the platform’s subscribers. This selection will gradually be expanded with movies organized by different themes and directors, with special monographic series and retrospectives, containing the films proposed in our annual program.

Casa Árabe and Filmin began collaborating in May 2020 when, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the institution had to interrupt the weekly film screenings scheduled at its headquarters and decided to shift to online screenings, with the support of Filmin. Nine months of hard work and cooperation between the two entities have given rise to a specific Casa Árabe channel on the platform, where the best titles in Arab film can be viewed.

In addition to creating the channel, and as a result of the agreement they have reached, Casa Árabe and Filmin will hold joint film cycles in a hybrid format (in person and online). This will be the case with our film series devoted to the “Tenth Anniversary of the Arab Uprisings in Film”, which you can watch as of May 21 at our institution’s headquarters in Madrid. Users of the Filmin streaming platform may add to their in-person viewing experience with online proposals that include five documentaries -I Am the People, by Anna Roussillon (France, 2014, 110 min); Half Revolution, by Omar Sharqawi and Karim El Hakum (Egypt, 2012, 71 min.) Silver Water, a Syrian Self-portrait, by Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan (Syria and France, 2014, 92 min.); Born in Syria, by Hernán Zin (Spain, 2016, 85 min.), and ISIS: The Birth of a Monster, by Paul Moreira (France, 2017, 52 min.) - as well as five fictional films - Clash [Eshtebak], by Mohamed Diab (Egypt, France, 2016, 97 min.); Capernaum, by Nadine Labaki (Lebanon, 2018, 126 min.); Alma Mater, by Philippe Van Leeuw (Belgium, 2017, 87 min.); My Favorite Fabric, by Gaya Jiji (France, Germany, Turkey, 2018, 95 min.), and Hedi, by Mohamed Ben Attia (Tunisia, Belgium, France, 2016, 93 min.)