This June Reel Festivals are coordinating events in Syria and Edinburgh, as well as going to watch some great and inspiring films coming up in the Edinburgh International Film Festival. SYRIA: In addition to almost half a million Palestinians, Syria hosts the largest Iraqi refugee population in the world, as well as refugees from other [...]

We’re very pleased to let you know about the upcoming 2010 Middle East Festival One World Peace Concert, which is combining great music and food while raising funds for forthcoming Reel Festivals (more about that soon…) and our friends at the Middle East Festival. Venue: Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU. Date: [...]

Exhibition now on: Creativity vs Destruction is an exhibition that explores the experiences of five internationally respected Iraqi artists from the 1970s up to the present day. The focal point of the exhibition will be work from Rashad Selim, Waafa Bilal, Sama Alshaibi, Maysaloun Faraj and Henaa Mal-Allah.

In collaboration with a local association Couleurs Cactus, Reel Festivals is very happy to be hosting a mini-festival in Marseille, France. The “De Baghdad à Marseille – une rencontre poétique” takes place in the Cinema Les Varietes on Thursday 25th of June. The evening’s programme consists of the film “Zaman, the Man from the Reeds” [...]

Creativity VS Destruction: Stories of Iraqi Art Reel Iraq invites you to attend the opening of the exhibition Creativity VS Destruction: Stories of Iraqi Art. The opening will run from 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm on Thursday the 2nd of July and will be held at the main hall of the Roxy Art House. The [...]

What a weekend it’s been! We still have most of Sunday to get through, but thanks to everyone who made it to the concert last night, it was an amazing night for us. So there’s many events on this week, we’ll send updates throughout the week, but we wanted to remind everyone that the photography [...]

We’re glad to let you know that advance tickets for Music of Iraq – Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble and the Babylon Arabic Band are available now to buy online from Ticket Scotland or, if you’re in Edinburgh, from the Solidarity Goods Shop, 35 Guthrie Street, EH1 1JG . Tickets are £10/£8(conc) and the [...]

More updates! We’ve added the whole lecture series to the website, with topics bringing you from Mesopotamia to Iraq. These talks will provide an opportunity to look at the historical and pre-historical background of Iraq. Irving Finkle and Venetia Porter of the British Museum will give talks on cultural activities in Mesopotamia and the Abbasids, [...]

We’re pleased to let you know that more information about the forthcoming Reel Iraq Festival is now available. There’s going to be a series of really interesting writers events this year, with Iraqi writers doing a series of readings at the McDonald Road Library on 19/05/09 and the Forest Cafe on 20/05/09.

Read on to find out more!

We’ve been keeping busy here at Reel Festivals HQ, and are happy to announce that we’ve added information on the Iraqi films that we’re presenting.

Read on for more information!