Individual Ticket Pricing
$12 General Public
$10 Seniors, Students (with ID), and Film Society Members
Festival Passes
Purchase Festival Pass ($50 in advance, $60 during festival)
Passes cover all films in the festival from September 26 – September 29. Buy an All-Access Pass before 9/26 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 opening night screenings:
Purchase 6-Pack ($45, online only)
Purchase 3-Pack ($25, online only)
Schedule
All foreign language films presented with English subtitles.
Thursday, 9/26
7:00 p.m. It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman | France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Palestine | Arabic, English, and French) Purchase tickets
9:30 – 11:00 p.m. Opening Night Party at Pracna on Main, with live performance by Deka + food by Zakia Deli *Suggestion Donation $10*
Friday, 9/27
11:00 a.m. aKasha (hajooj kuka | Sudan, South Africa, Qatar, Germany | Arabic with English subtitles); w/ View from Above (Hiwa K | Iraqi Kurdistan | English) Purchase Tickets
*Student Screening*
1:00 p.m. Yara (Abbas Fahdel | Lebanon, Iraq, France | Arabic) Purchase tickets
3:00 p.m. Bezness as Usual (Alex Pitstra | Netherlands, Tunisia| Dutch, English, and Arabic) Purchase tickets
5:00 p.m. Weldi (Dear Son) (Mohamed Ben Attia | Tunisia| Arabic) Purchase tickets
7:00 p.m. Western Arabs (Omar Shargawi | Denmark, Netherlands | Danish, English, and Arabic) + Post-Screening Discussion with director Omar Shargawi Purchase tickets *Mature content*
9:15 p.m. Dreamaway (Marouan Omara and Johanna Domke | Germany, Egypt | Arabic); w/ Manivelle: Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow (Fadi (the fdz) Baki | Lebanon | Arabic) Purchase tickets
Saturday, 9/28
11:00 a.m. SUDANESE SHORTS. Restored Shorts from the Sudanese Film Group: Al Dhareeh / The Tomb (Eltayeb Mahdi | Sudan, Egypt | Arabic); Al Mahatta / The Station (Eltayeb Mahdi | Sudan | Arabic); Wa Lakin Alardh Tadur / It Still Rotates (Suliman Elnour | Yemen, USSR | Arabic); Jamal / A Camel (Ibrahim Shaddad | Sudan | Arabic) Purchase tickets
12:25 p.m. Tiny Souls (Dina Naser | Jordan | Arabic) Purchase tickets
2:10 p.m. Hamada (Eloy Domínguez Serén | Western Sahara | Arabic) Purchase tickets
4:00 p.m. LOCAL(ISH): 5 SHORT FILMS: Of Our Youth (Samiera Abou-Nasr | US | English); Turath aw Hadara (Qais Assali & Jose Luis Benavides | US | English and Arabic); Nice Legs (Qais Assali & Jose Luis Benavides | US | English and Arabic); Youth in Dearborn | The Story of Rana & Mahdi (Andy Madeleine | US | English and Arabic); Two Truths and a Lie (Sarah Abdel-Jelil | US, UK, Mauritania | English and Arabic) + Post-Screening Discussion with filmmakers Purchase tickets
5:45 p.m. Erased,__Ascent of the Invisible (Ghassan Halwani | Lebanon | Arabic); w/ Of Yellow Was the Outer Sky (Hisham Bizri | Lebanon | no dialogue) Purchase tickets *Mature Content*
7:30 p.m. It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman | France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Palestine | Arabic, English, and French) Purchase tickets
9:30 p.m. Dachra (Abdelhamid Bouchnak | Tunisia | Arabic, French) w/ Virile (The Blaze (Guillaume and Jonathan Alric) | France | English) Purchase tickets
Sunday, 9/29
11:00 a.m. ROSALIND NASHASHIBI RETROSPECTIVE: Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine (Rosalind Nashashibi | UK | English); Electrical Gaza (Rosalind Nashashibi | Palestine | Arabic); This Quality (Rosalind Nashashibi | Egypt | no dialogue); Hreash House (Rosalind Nashashibi | Palestine | no dialogue); The State of Things (Rosalind Nashashibi | UK | no dialogue) Purchase tickets
12:30 p.m. SISTERS, MOTHERS, FRIENDS, LOVERS. A COLLECTION OF SHORTS: Cycle of Apples (Maha Al-Saati | Saudi Arabia, Canada | Arabic); Moderately Satisfied (Hind Anabtawi | UAE | Arabic); Nocturnal Deconstruction (Laura El-Alam | Lebanon | Arabic); Mum (Mariam Al Awadhi | UAE | Arabic); Brothers (Mike Mosallam | US | English); Jebel Banat (Sharine Atif | Egypt | Arabic) Purchase tickets
2:10 p.m. When Arabs Danced (Jawad Rhalib | Morocco, France, Egypt, Iran, Belgium | French, English, Dutch, and Arabic) Purchase tickets
3:55 p.m. Wajd – Songs of Separation (Amar Chebib | Syria | Arabic) Purchase tickets
5:45 p.m. aKasha (hajooj kuka | Sudan, South Africa, Qatar, Germany | Arabic with English subtitles) + Post-Screening Discussion Purchase tickets
7:30 p.m. EXT. Night (Ahmad Abdalla | Egypt, UAE | Arabic); w/ Necessity Has No Law (Ahmed Hamed | Egypt | Arabic) Purchase tickets