EFTA 2025 at Lagrange Points Brussels

Lagrange Points Brussels will pause its construction works to host the second edition of the Arab Theatre Festival in Europe — EFTA 2025 — from November 6 to 9. During these four days, the building site becomes a public stage, classroom, cinema, and meeting ground. Immediately after the festival, works will continue until our soft opening, to be announced soon.

EFTA 2025 brings practitioners and audiences together to explore Arab theatre, memory, and political imagination in diaspora. The program includes a public dialogue, a two-day theatre workshop, musical storytelling performance, film screenings, and a final showcase of new work from the SWANA region and its diaspora. This edition continues a commitment to build shared cultural infrastructure, collective authorship, and space for Arab and transnational voices in Europe.

Program Overview

Thursday, November 6

Public Dialogue – Arab Heritage: Culture, Politics, and the Role of the Arts

18:30

Language: EN

Film Screening – Taste of Cement

21:00

Language: AR with EN subtitles

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQJapm-iCMc/?img_index=1

Friday, November 7

Workshop – Writing and Directing: Stanislavski’s Tools (Day 1)

14:00

Languages: AR/EN/FR

Musical Storytelling – The Holy Womb

19:00

Language: AR with EN subtitles

https://www.instagram.com/p/DP_6zPAiO_5/?img_index=1

Saturday, November 8

Workshop – Writing and Directing: Stanislavski’s Tools (Day 2)

14:00

Languages: AR/EN/FR

Film Screening – A State of Passion (2024)

19:00

Language: AR with EN subtitles

Sunday, November 9

Theatre Showcase – New Performances from the SWANA Region and Diaspora

19:00

About the Festival

EFTA creates a multidisciplinary platform for theatre-makers, researchers, and audiences to think together about performance as a tool for memory, resistance, and social imagination. This edition highlights:

• Diasporic theatre practices and questions of heritage

• Collective storytelling and embodied knowledge

• Documentary cinema as testimony and memory-building

• New works emerging from the Arab region and exile communities

The festival is organised by Mirsat in collaboration with Lagrange Points Brussels.

Registration

 Registration and event details available on this page, free entry.

We look forward to welcoming you into the space before we close again to complete construction toward opening.