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Sunday, 11/8 at the Walker Arts Center
3:00 p.m.
7:30 p.m. (2nd showing)

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Closing Party with Mizna and directors between screenings from 5-7. Please purchase tickets for the event on Mizna’s website here. A portion of proceeds will be donated to help Syrian refugees in the US, Europe, and the Middle East.

Director: Tala Hadid
Narrative feature, drama, 93 mins, 2014
Country: Morocco/France/UK
Languages: Arabic, French
Minnesota premiere

Principal cast: Khalid Abdalla, Marie-Josée Croze, Fadwa Boujouane, Hocine Choutri, Majdouline Idrissi

Synopsis: Orphan Aïcha (Boujouane) is a survivor. Sold from her home in the Atlas Mountains to Abbas (Choutri), a petty criminal traveling with his girlfriend Nadia (Idrissi), Aïcha uses her wit and determination to escape. When Abbas’ car breaks down, (The Kite Runner’s Khalid Abdalla), a Moroccan-Iraqi writer in search of his missing brother, picks up the trio, eventually helping Aïcha to escape into the care of his former lover, Judith (Marie-Josee Croze). Shifting between reality and dreams, across Morocco, Istanbul, and the plains of Kurdistan, The Narrow Frame of Midnight is moving story of politics, compassion, and hope.

Tala Hadid is writer, director and photographer, whose first feature-length documentary film Sacred Poet concerned Pier Paolo Pasolini. Her short film “Tes Cheveux Noirs Ihsan” received an Academy Award, won the Panorama Best Short Film Award at the Berlin Film Festival, the Kodak/Cinecolor Prize, Best Film and Best Actress at Tangiers National Film Fest, and awards from the Global Film Initiative, the Milos Forman grant, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Hadid’s work has screened, among other venues, at the MoMA in NYC, L’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Goteberg Kunsthalle in Sweden, the Goethe Institute/Cairo, the Los Angeles County Museum, la Cinémathèque Française in Paris, and the Photographer’s Gallery in London. In 2012 she was awarded the Peter S Reed Foundation Arts grant in support of her work, most specifically “House in the Fields”, a documentary film project of rural life in the Atlas mountains in Morocco. In the autumn of 2013, the Fine Art photography publisher Stern published a volume of a selection of Hadid’s photographs as part of its Stern Fotografie Portfolio emerging photographers.

Festivals:
New York African Film Festival, 2015
Dubai International Film Festival, 2014
Marrakech International Film Festival, 2014
BFI London Film Festival, 2014
Rome Film Festival, 2014
Toronto International Film Festival, 2014

Awards:
Special Jury Prize, Plein les Yeux Frans Film Festival, 2015