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Oran International Arabic Film Festival

annual film festival held in Oran, Algeria

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ3070685 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Oran International Arabic Film Festival (Oiaff) (Arabic: مهرجان وهران الدولي للفيلم العربي) is a recurring film festival, held in Oran.

The 2012 top award went to the film Coming Forth by Day by Hala Lotfi.

Participating countries

2010

In 2010 the festival took place between 16 December to 23 December in Oran.

Editorial summary

“Oran International Arabic Film Festival” enters the record as annual film festival held in Oran, Algeria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oran, International and Arabic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Oran, International and Arabic.
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Why this record matters

“Oran International Arabic Film Festival” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Oran, International and Arabic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3070685. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oran International Arabic Film Festival” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.