The 100 Greatest Arab Films of All Time

In 2025, we launched an ambitious new initiative: to ask critics, programmers, and academics to name The 100 Greatest Arab Films of All Time. We are finally ready to unveil the list, alongside AFMI’s newest initiative: Cinemayaat, a yearly online magazine to grow the discourse and profile of classic and contemporary cinema from the Arab world through critical, personal and experimental essays.

Join us from November 18th through December 18th, as each week we unveil 20 films in #AFMI100, until we announce The Greatest Arab Film of All Time.

Follow AFMI on Instagram, sign up for our newsletter, and visit Cinemayaat.com to read about each film as it is unveiled:

• Tuesday November 18th: Films 100-81
• Tuesday Nov. 25th: Films 80-61 
• Tuesday December 2nd: Films 60-41
• Tuesday Dec. 9th: Films 40-21
• Tuesday Dec. 16th: Films 20-11
• Thursday Dec. 18th: Films 10-1