Alternative Film Lab
A cinematic laboratory for films we do not yet know how to make
Since 1999
FILMS
Every film invents its own world
CESAREAN WEEKEND
2026
Founder / Filmmaker / Mentor
M. SHIRVANI
Filmmaker
Founder of AFLab
Founder and Mentor of
the ACW Approach
Alternative Cinema Workshop
An open approach
to the birth of the filmmaker
COLLABORATION
One person begins.
Others make it possible.
No one is cinema alone.
“I prefer, as a filmmaker, to help that imprisoned freedom itself to be released, to be exposed.”
— Mohammad Shirvani, Arsenal Filminstitut e.V., Forum 2026