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Schedule
All foreign language films presented with English subtitles.
Thursday, 9/29 at St. Anthony Main Theatre
7:00 p.m. As I Open My Eyes (Leila Bouzid | Tunisia, France, UAE| Arabic, French) Purchase tickets
8:45 p.m. Opening Night Reception—Free and open to the public—with performance by DJ Egypto Knuckles
Friday, 9/30 at St. Anthony Main Theatre
1:00 p.m. Yallah! Underground (Farid Eslam | Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine | English, Arabic) Sponsored by the Minnesota State Arts Board *FREE FOR STUDENTS* Purchase tickets
3:15 p.m. Speed Sisters (Amber Fares | Palestine, Qatar, Canada | Arabic, English) Purchase tickets
5:00 p.m. Yallah! Underground (Farid Eslam |Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine | English, Arabic) Purchase tickets
7:15 p.m. Trip Along Exodus (Hind Shoufani |Lebanon , Syria, Palestine | Arabic) Purchase tickets
9:45 p.m. In the Last Days of the City (Tamer El Said | Egypt, Germany, UK | Arabic, French) Purchase tickets
Saturday, 10/1 at St. Anthony Main Theatre
11:30 a.m. Mariam (Faiza Ambah | Saudi Arabia, France | French); w/Wintry Spring (Mohamed Kamal | Egypt | Arabic); Under the Hat (Amal Al-Agroobi | UAE | Arabic) Purchase tickets
1:00 p.m. IRAQI SHORTS: Taste of Life (Medoo Ali | Iraq, UK, Netherlands, USA | Arabic); Iraqi Superman (Sajjad Abbas | Iraq, UK, Netherlands, USA | Arabic); Dark to Dark (Omid Khalid | Iraq, UK, Netherlands, USA | Arabic) + IRAQI VOICES: The Actor (Adnan Shati | Iraq, USA | Arabic); Stealth Pathogen (Nathan Fisher | Iraq, USA | Arabic); Iraq Darkly (Jamal Ali | Iraq, USA | Arabic); East by Midwest *work in progress* (Inam Alaseel , Jamal Ali, Amel Al-Sammarraie, Ali Alshammaa, Abduallah Falija, Nathan Fisher, Jamela Hasoon, Ghazwan Khalid, Salwa Mohaldeen, Mohammed Raif, Nadya Saleem | Iraq, USA | Arabic) + Q&A with local filmmakers Purchase tickets
2:45 p.m. The Blind Orchestra (Mohamed Mouftakir | Morocco | Arabic, French) + Introduction by Hakim Abderrezak Purchase tickets
5:00 p.m. Queens of Syria (Yasmin Fedda | Jordan, UAE, UK | Arabic); w/Message To.. (Rami Hassoun | France, Switzerland | Arabic); on silence (live reading – Andrea Shaker | USA | English) + Post-Screening Discussion w/filmmaker Andrea Shaker Purchase tickets
7:30 p.m. 3000 Nights (Mai Masri | Palestine, France, Jordan | Arabic) + Post Screening Discussion w/actor Hana Chamoun Purchase tickets
9:30 p.m. Dégradé (Tarzan and Arab Nasser | Palestine | Arabic, Russian); w/9 Days: From My Window in Aleppo (Floor van der Meulen, Thomas Vroege, Issa Touma | Syria | Arabic) Purchase tickets
Sunday, 10/2 at St. Anthony Main Theatre
11:30 a.m. MEDIA IN THE DISTORTED PRESENT: Waves ’98 (Ely Dagher | Lebanon, Qatar | Arabic); And on a Different Note (Mohammad Shawky Hassan | Egypt | Arabic); Diaspora (Alaeddin Abou Taleb | Tunisia | Arabic); Goal to Syria (Amjad Wardeh | Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey | Arabic); In the Future they Ate from the Finest Porcelain (Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind | Palestine, UK, Denmark | Arabic); Purchase tickets
1:10 p.m. Checks and Balances (Malek Bensmaïl | Algeria | Arabic, French) Purchase tickets
3:00 p.m. What About Tomorrow? (Ziad Rahbani | Lebanon | Arabic) Purchase tickets
5:00 p.m. Before the Summer Crowds (Mohammed Khan | Egypt | Arabic); w/Dry Hot Summers (Sherif Elbendary | Egypt | Arabic); 2016 Arab Film Fest Awards Announced Purchase tickets
Mark the end of the Arab Film Fest at Dear Gaza: a street party benefitting ANERA
SUGGESTED DONATION $10-20 – Note different location: 25th Street and Lyndale Ave, Minneapolis
Musical talents include *Hello Psychaleppo at 8:50 + Maria Isa at 9:30*
St. Anthony Main Theatre
115 SE Main St, Minneapolis, MN 55414