Festival Passes
Purchase Festival Passes ($50 in advance, $60 during festival)
Passes cover all films at St Anthony Main Theatre September 28 – October 1, but do not cover the opening night film Tramontane.
(*Buy an All-Access Pass before 9/27 and receive a complimentary 1-year subscription to the literary journal Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America)
You can also purchase multiple tickets at a time, in 3- or 6-packs, redeemable for any screenings in the festival, excluding special student screenings and the opening night film at the Walker Art Center.
Purchase 3-Pack ($20, online only)
Purchase 6-Pack ($35, online only)
Schedule
All foreign language films presented with English subtitles.
Wednesday, 9/27 at Walker Art Center
7:00 p.m. Tramontane (Vatche Boulghourjian | Lebanon, France, Qatar, UAE | Arabic) Purchase tickets
*Turn in your Tramontane ticket for a free drink at the concert that follows the film*
9:00 – 10:00 p.m. Toyour by Hello Psychaleppo – Multimedia Album Release Concert at the Walker’s Garden Terrace & Film Festival Opening Reception
Let us buy you a drink! Turn in your Tramontane film ticket for a free drink at the concert. *This event is free and open to the public*
Thursday, 9/28 at St. Anthony Main Theatre
11:00 a.m. NEW HOMES, NEW STORIES: LOCAL SHORTS: short documentary films from the Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project’s Iraqi Voices program; w/ The Dream Still Is (Zachary Green | USA | English) + Discussionw/filmmakers
*Reserved for high school students; not open to the public*
1:20 p.m. Gaza Surf Club (Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine | Palestine / Germany | Arabic / English) Purchase tickets
*Free for students with a valid student ID*
3:15 p.m. Abdullah (Humaid Alsuwaidi | UAE | Arabic); w/ Villagers (Nidal Badarny| Palestine | Arabic) Purchase tickets
5:20 p.m. Withered Green (Mohammed Hammad | Egypt | Arabic); w/ Photo (Sawsan Al-Areeqe | Yemen); w/ Departure (Ibi Ibrahim | Yemen, Jordan | Arabic) Purchase tickets
7:00 p.m. House Without Roof (Soleen Yusef | Iraq, Germany, Qatar | Kurdish, German) Purchase tickets
9:10 p.m. Burning Hope (Lotfi Achour | Tunisia | Arabic, French) Purchase tickets
*Content warning: this film contains violence and sexual assault*
Friday, 9/29 at St. Anthony Main Theatre
11:00 a.m. The Occupation of the American Mind (Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp, Sut Jhally, Jason Young | USA | English) Reserve Seats
*Free and open to the public*
1:15 p.m. Nowhere to Hide (Zaradasht Ahmed | Iraq / Sweden / Norway | Arabic) Purchase tickets
3:00 p.m. Go Home (Jihane Chouaib | Lebanon, France, Switzerland, Belgium | French, Arabic); w/ Caravan (Suzannah Mirghani | Qatar) Purchase tickets
5:10 p.m. Les Petits Chats (Sherif Nakhla | Egypt | Arabic); w/ Hide Your Metal (Yasmine Mustafa | Jordan | Arabic) Purchase tickets
7:00 p.m. The Preacher (Magdy Ahmed Ali | Egypt | Arabic) + Q&A with Director Magdi Ahmed Ali Purchase tickets
9:50 p.m. Much Loved (Nabil Ayouch | Morocco | Arabic) Purchase tickets
*Content warning: this film contains violence and sexually explicit language and images*
Saturday, 9/30 at St. Anthony Main Theatre
11:00 a.m. UNFAMILIAR SCENES: ANIMATED and INVENTED: Karouma (Boubaker Boukhari | UAE); Lilou (Rawan Rahim | Lebanon); Ayny (Ahmed Saleh | Palestine, Germany | Arabic); Yaman (Amer Al Barzaoi | Syria | Arabic); Battalion to my Beat (Eimi Imanishi | Western Sahara, Algeria, USA | Arabic); Jareedy (Mohamed Hisham | Egypt | Nubian); Five Boys and a Wheel (Zagha | Jordan, Palestine | Arabic) Purchase tickets
*Content is appropriate for children ages 12 and up. Some implied violence and experimental forms*
1:00 p.m. Those Who Remain (Eliane Rehab | Lebanon, UAE | Arabic) Purchase tickets
2:45 p.m. We Have Never Been Kids (Mahmood Soliman | UAE, Egypt, Qatar, Lebanon | Arabic) + Q&A with Director Mahmood Soliman Purchase tickets
5:00 p.m. DIALOGUE WITH A FILMMAKER: A RETROSPECTIVE OF HISHAM BIZRI’S WORK: The Wanderer (Shooq) (Hisham Bizri | Jordan | Arabic); w/ Asmahan (Hisham Bizri | Egypt, USA | Arabic); Beneath the Wide Wide Heaven (Hisham Bizri | USA, Italy, Cambodia, Vietnam | Italian, English) + Post-Screening Discussion w/filmmaker Hisham Bizri Purchase tickets
7:15 p.m. Halal Love (And Sex) (Assad Fouladkar | Germany, Lebanon | Arabic); w/ The Candle (Nasser Samara | USA | English, Spanish) Purchase tickets
*Content warning: this film contains sexually explicit language and images*
9:30 p.m. The War Show (Obaidah Zytoon, Andreas Darsgaard | Denmark, Finland, Syria | Arabic) Purchase tickets
Sunday, 10/1 at St. Anthony Main Theatre
11:00 a.m. DREAMING OF PALESTINE: The Dream (Mohamad Malas | Syria | Arabic); w/ Gaza. A Gaping Wound (Anne Paq, Ala Qandil | Palestine, Poland | Arabic); Pianist of Yarmouk (Vikram Ahluwalia | United Kingdom, Germany, Syria | Arabic); Stories Purchase tickets
1:05 p.m. Listen (Philippe Aractingi | Lebanon | Arabic) Purchase tickets
3:05 p.m. Stitching Palestine (Carol Mansour | Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon | Arabic, English); w/ Between A Garden and the Sea (A. Lorr | Canada | French, Arabic) Purchase tickets
4:45 p.m. Visiting Directors Roundtable Discussion – Featuring free food provided by Shish
*This event is free and open to the public* (in the Fireplace Grotto, across from Pracna Restaurant)
7:00 p.m. Solitaire (Sophie Boutros | Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon | Arabic); w/ The Parrot (Amjad Al Rasheed, Darin J. Sallam | Jordan, Germany | Arabic, Yiddish, Hebrew) Purchase tickets
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