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AIFF SOUK – AIFF International Film Festival Market
In 2025, the Algiers International Film Festival (AIFF) launches the first edition of the AIFF Film Market (AIFF SOUK), which will take place from December 5 to 9, 2025, at the Riadh El Feth Office – Level 102.
The Market constitutes a genuine platform for meetings between professionals in the cinema and audiovisual sectors, aiming to encourage sales, purchases, co-productions, and the distribution of film and audiovisual works.
This first edition focuses on the national market, with prospects for expansion in the coming years.
Internal Regulations of AIFF SOUK
Article 1 – The Exhibition
– The AIFF SOUK will be held from December 5 to 9, 2025, at the Riadh El Feth Office – Level 102, within the framework of the 12th edition of the Festival.
– The AIFF SOUK aims to encourage professional meetings around sales, purchases,production, co-production, and the distribution of film and audiovisual works.
Article 2 – Participants
The Market is open to accredited professionals:
– Producers
– Holders of film and audiovisual projects
– Distributors and international sales agents
– Post-production structures
– Streaming platforms and television channels
– Representatives of institutions and funding bodies
Article 3 – Accreditation
To participate, each professional must:
– Complete the registration form available on the dedicated page: ficinema.dz/le marche and send it by email no later than October 23, 2025 (23:59 – Algiers time).
– Receive official confirmation from the Festival on October 30, 2025.
– Participation and accreditation for this first edition are free of charge.
Calendar:
– Opening of registrations: October 3, 2025
– Closing of registrations: October 23, 2025
– Confirmation of accreditations: October 30, 2025
Article 4 – Accepted Films and Projects
Submitted projects must:
– Be registered through the dedicated form before October 23, 2025 (23:59 – Algiers time).
– Provide project presentation, technical sheet, viewing link, or high-quality digital file.
– Respect copyright and be free of any legal obligations.
– The Artistic Directory and a designated committee, in line with the Festival’s editorial
guidelines, will carry out the final selection.
Article 5 – Screenings and Visibility
– Screenings are reserved exclusively for accredited professionals.
– Selected films and projects will be included in the official Festival catalogue.
– Organizers reserve the right to use the submitted information for the promotion of the Festival and the Market.
– Any special screening request must be submitted in advance to the artistic
management.
Article 6 – Booths and Professional Spaces
– Companies wishing to obtain a booth must submit their request during registration.
– Organizers provide an equipped space (table, signage, internet connection).
– Additional costs (decoration, special equipment, etc.) are borne by the exhibitor.
Article 7 – Responsibilities
– Each participant is responsible for his or her equipment and the confidentiality of his or her exchanges.
– Organizers are not liable for any loss, theft, or damage.
Article 8 – Conduct and Ethics
– Participants are required to maintain proper professional behavior.
– Any serious misconduct may lead to immediate exclusion without the right to appeal.
Article 9 – Final Provisions
– Participation in the Market implies full acceptance of these regulations.
– The organizers reserve the right to modify the regulations when necessary.
– Accredited participants will be notified of any updates.
Contacts:
Festival Market Coordination: aiffsouk@ficinema.dz
General inquiries: contact@ficinema.dz
Website: www.ficinema.dz

Cuba, Guest of Honour of the 12ᵗʰ Algiers International Film Festival (AIFF)
The Algiers International Film Festival (AIFF) from 4th to 10th December 2025 will welcome the Republic of Cuba as the Guest of Honour of its 12ᵗʰ edition.
This invitation reflects the profound historical and cultural ties between Algeria and Cuba: sixty-two years after Commander Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s first visit to Algiers, and sixty years after his last, this choice symbolizes a shared memory of struggles and fraternity.
By highlighting Cuban cinema, AIFF seeks to immerse audiences in a singular universe shaped by challenges and creativity. Cuban cinema stands out for its experience in co-production and its resilience in the face of constraints, particularly its geographical and symbolic proximity to Hollywood and its box office. It embodies an aesthetic of resistance: a cinema that questions, endures, and inspires.
In collaboration with the Cuban Institute of Arts and Cinema Industry (ICIAC), AIFF invites filmmakers and audiences to discover Cuban films that narrate the memory and present of a people, while engaging in dialogue with the stories of the Global South. This is about exploring the Cuban experience, enriching the collective imagination, and reinforcing the role of cinema as a space for solidarity and transformation.
True to its vocation, AIFF reaffirms its commitment to promoting engaged cinemas, people’s stories, and perspectives capable of challenging dominant narratives.
With Cuba as Guest of Honour, the 2025 edition promises to be a crossroads of discovery, reflection, and exchange between Algiers, Havana, and the rest of the world.


Over 3,300 films submitted Closing of the Call for Films – 12th Algiers International Film Festival
Over 3,300 films submitted
Closing of the Call for Films – 12th Algiers International Film Festival The Algiers International Film Festival (AIFF), under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and Arts, closed its call for films on September 10, 2025, with more than 3,300 submissions from 117 countries via the FilmFreeway platform.
– 352 feature films
– 2,724 short films
– 352 documentaries
The strong interest shown by international filmmakers in this 12th edition, scheduled for December 4–10, 2025, in Algiers, confirms the growing appeal of the Algiers International Film Festival. We warmly thank all the filmmakers who submitted their works via FilmFreeway and the festival’s official website. The Selection Committee will announce the films chosen for Competition and Out of Competition on October 10, 2025. The 12th edition will offer a bold and committed program around major themes: collective memory, shifting identities, struggles, and imaginations of the Global South, across the following sections:
– Official Competition (shorts, features, and documentaries)
– Cuban cinema in the spotlight
– Palestinian cinema
– International Panorama
– Algeria / Africa Focus
– Cine-LAB :master classes, panels, cinema lessons.
– Film, Knowledge & Science
Competing films will vie for the Grand Prize, Jury Prize, Audience Award, and Technical Award.
See you in December in Algiers to discover this new edition!

Message from the Festival Commissioner
Cinema is much more than an art form.
It is a living language, born of vision and movement, created to transcend time and borders, to transform reality into story, to connect people through light and emotion.
It is a shared memory, a tool for transmission, reconciliation, and collective imagination.
At a time when narratives are fragmenting, and the world echoes with tensions and inequalities, the Algiers International Film Festival turns the spotlight back on what unites us: culture, speech, dignity, memory, and shared dreams.
Algiers, a Land of Cinema
From December 4 to 10, 2025, Algiers will become a vast screen open to the world.
A city gathering around images and ideas, nurturing encounter, dialogue, and living memory.
A city where cinema becomes a common language, a sensory experience, a social bond, a space of communion.
A Festival Inhabited by Stories, Identities, and Resistance
The 12ᵗʰ edition of the Festival will revolve around moving narratives, expressions of identity, and the cinemas of memory and life.
A program designed as a constellation of stories, perspectives, and forms.
Each film sheds light on a part of the world.
The Festival seeks to connect.
To build bridges between geographies and generations.
To give voice, awaken consciousness, and rekindle memory.
Through the big screen, it invites us to feel, reflect, engage, and explore.
To dream together.
Thank you to the filmmakers for carrying the light of cinema.
Thank you to the audience for welcoming this universe with curiosity, passion, and kindness.
Enjoy the screening. Keep thinking. Stay free through cinema.
And may the world continue to express itself, to dream, and to understand itself through the magic of the seventh art.
Hatim Mehdi Benaïssa
Commissioner, Algiers International Film Festival