# Manfa - Arabic mini film festival x Bázis.

- Page: https://yondernite.com/en/events/manfa-arabic-mini-film-festival-x-bazis-2026-10-23
- Language: English
- Times are local: Europe/Budapest
- When: 2026-10-23 17:00 – until 2026-10-24 (UTC+02:00)
- Where: Horánszky utca 25., Budapest, Hungary, 1085, Budapest
- Type: Festival
- Organiser's page (tickets are sold there): https://allevents.in/budapest/manfa-arabic-mini-film-festival-x-b%C3%A1zis/200030861893935

## About

MANFA (منفى), meaning “exile,” brings together Arabic films exploring displacement, belonging, and the feeling of being a stranger in your own home or elsewhere. Join us at Bázis on October 23 and 24 for two days of films and good company, with no registration or fixed entrance fee, just a suggested donation. All movies are shown with English subtitles. The full screening timetable can be seen below. We wrap up just as BIFF (Budapest International Film Festival) begins, so make a plan to check out their programme too and keep the cinema weekend going! Friday's programme: 18:00 Cairo Station (باب الحديد ) dir. Youssef Chahine | 1958 | 1h 17min | Egypt The Red Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry (البحر الأحمر يبكي) dir. Faris Alrjoob | 2023 | 21 min | Jordan The event opens with Youssef Chahine’s neorealist classic, Cairo Station. Interweaving the lives of a sexually repressed newspaper vendor, an independent yet tragic femme fatale, and an unionizing porter, the film exposes the deep-seated gender and class tensions of 1950s Egyptian society. The Red Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry offers a poetic meditation on trauma, grief, and the search for closure in a fundamentally liminal landscape. Saturday's…

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