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Soura Film Fest

Soura Film Fest

Queer SWANA Film Festival

Thursday, 02 October 2025 until Sunday, 05 October 2025

Soura Film Festival is a Berlin-based queer film festival that sheds light on cinematic talents from the SWANA (South West Asia & North Africa) region.
Soura—which means ‘image’ in Arabic, is about sharing a vision of life that is poignant, defiant and unique.

The festival's mission is to create a safe and welcoming space for filmmakers whose creative vision has challenged heteronormativity and patriarchal environments, and have explored queerness and what it represents to them. Queerness, as seen by the festival, is not exclusive to efforts related to the LGBTQ+ community, but also tackles themes such as feminism, migration and human relationships that defy oppressive social constructs.

The annual program presents the current queer film scene from the SWANA region within various sections including feature films, short films, documentaries, animation, essay-films and newly discovered queer-classics.

Soura Film Festival aims to step across borders to help filmmakers advocate for queerness through powerful storytelling. The festival reserves the right to select artistic efforts that adhere to its political frameworks and support the notion of queerness that stands with the struggles of oppressed communities everywhere in their fight for their basic rights.


Awards & Prizes

*Introduction of Awards*

For our 6th edition, we’re thrilled to introduce awards for the first time! An independent jury will be tasked with selecting the Best Short Film and the Best Feature Film (fiction or documentary).