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 27 – September 30. 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:
Purchase 3-Pack ($20, online only)
Purchase 6-Pack ($35, online only)
Schedule
All foreign language films presented with English subtitles.
Thursday, 9/27
7:00 p.m. Capernaum (Nadine Labaki | Lebanon, US | Arabic) Purchase tickets
9:30 – 11:00 p.m. Opening Night Party at Pracna on Main, with live performance by Dua and DJ Yasmeenah + food by Zakia Deli
*Suggestion Donation $10*
Friday, 9/28
11:00 a.m. 1948: Creation and Catastrophe (Andy Trimlett, Ahlam Muhtaseb | US | English, Arabic, Hebrew) Reserve Seats
*High School Screening*
1:15 p.m. Naila and the Uprising (Julia Bacha | US | English, Arabic, Hebrew); w/ And An Image Was Born (Firas Khoury | Palestine | Arabic) + Post-Screening Discussion Purchase tickets
3:30 p.m. Separation (HAVIBON) الفراق (Hakar Abdulqader | Iraq | Kurdish) Purchase tickets
*Free for Students*
5:30 p.m. Sheikh Jackson (Amr Salama | Egypt | Arabic) Purchase tickets
7:30 p.m. Looking for Oum Kulthum (Shirin Neshat | Germany, Austria, Qatar, Lebanon | English, Arabic, Farsi) Purchase tickets
9:40 p.m. My Favorite Fabric (Gaya Jiji | France, Germany, Turkey | Arabic); w/ Rupture (Yassmina Karajah | Jordan, Canada | Arabic) Purchase tickets
*Warning: this segment contains sexually explicit content and violence*
Saturday, 9/29
11:00 a.m. SATURDAY MORNING FILM AND FUN!: 1001 Days (Aisha Al-Jaidah | Qatar | Arabic); Memory of a Fish (Yousef Salhi | Palestine | Arabic) + Theater games with Mohamed Yabdri Purchase tickets
12:10 p.m. Ouroboros (Basma Alsharif | France, Palestine, US | English, Italian, Chinook); w/ Unspoken (Samia Badih | UAE | Arabic) Purchase tickets
1:50 p.m. A Certain Nasser (Badih Massaad, Antoine Waked | Lebanon | Arabic, French) Purchase tickets
3:10 p.m. Where To? (Ila Ayn?) الى عين (Georges Nasser | Lebanon | Arabic) Purchase tickets
5:00 p.m. Taste of Cement (Ziad Kalthoum | Lebanon, Germany, Syria, Qatar, UAE | Arabic); w/ One Day in Aleppo (Ali Alibrahim | Syria | Arabic) + Post-Screening Discussion Purchase tickets
7:30 p.m. Kiss Me Not بلاش تبوسني (Ahmed Amer | Egypt | Arabic) Purchase tickets
9:40 p.m. Foreign Body (Raja Amari | Tunisia, France | Arabic, French) Purchase tickets
*Warning: this segment contains sexually explicit content and violence*
Sunday, 9/30
11:00 a.m. Wild Relatives (Jumana Manna | Lebanon, Norway, Germany | Enlish, Arabic, Norwegian); w/ Off the Grid (Sarah Hassan | UAE | English) Purchase tickets
12:30 p.m. EXPANDING CINEMA IN DIASPORA: LOCAL SHORT FILMS: Like Salt (Darine Hotait | US | English, Arabic); our home is asleep but there is a rumble (Noelle Awadallah | US | English); an uncapitolized watan (Leila Awadallah | US | English); Drive (Sara Gama | US | English); I Am no Bird (Andrew Cagle | US | English); on bayt (Andrea Shaker | US | English) + Post-Screening Discussion with filmmakers Noelle Awadallah, Leila Awadallah, Andrew Cagle, Andrea Shaker, and musician Hello Psychaleppo (Samer Saem Eldahr) Purchase tickets
2:45 p.m. Visiting Directors Roundtable Discussion
*This event is free and open to the public*
3:45 p.m. Naila and the Uprising (Julia Bacha | US | English, Arabic, Hebrew) + Post-Screening Discussion Purchase tickets
5:45 p.m. Writing on Snow كتابة على الثلج (Rashid Masharawi | Palestine, Tunisia | Arabic); w/ One Minute (Dina Nasser | Palestine | Arabic) Purchase tickets
7:30 p.m. Wajib واجب (Annemarie Jacir | Palestine, France, Colombia, UAE, Norway, Qatar, Germany | Arabic); w/ Bonbone (Rakan Mayasi | Palestine, Lebanon | Arabic, Hebrew) Purchase tickets