Minnesota's Second Annual Arab Film Festival: September 23rd - 26th, 2004

Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408

For Tickets call: 612-871-4444
$5 per screening, $25 Festival Pass
($20 Intermedia Arts members, Mizna subscribers, and youth under 16)

Co-presented by MIZNA and Intermedia Arts, the Second Annual Arab Film Festival is a four-day event showcasing feature-length films, documentaries, and short films by Arab filmmakers. This festival speaks to the void in presentation of artistic expression by Arabs in the West and combats stereotypical representation by highlighting the work of Arab artists. The Arab Film Festival will include post-screening discussions with filmmakers Nadia El Fani, Annemarie Jacir, and Raed Al Helou.


Thursday, September 23rd: 7:30 p.m.

• Sleepless Nights, (Sahar Al Leyali), 2003, Hani Khalifa (Egypt) 130 min.
• Opening Reception follows the film

Friday, September 24th: 7:30 p.m.

• Bedwin Hacker, Nadia El Fani (France/Tunisia) 103 min.
• Post-screening discussion with Nadia El Fani (filmmaker)

Saturday, September 25th

9:30 a.m.

• Movie and Mezza, traditional Arabic breakfast

10:00 a.m.

• Adrift on the Nile (Tharthara Fawga Al-Neel), 1971, 115 minutes, Hussein Kamal (Egypt)

1:00 p.m.

• How Beautiful is the Sea (Ma Ahla al-Bahr), 2003, 20 minutes, Sabine El Chamaa (Lebanon/U.S.)
• Diary of an Art Competition (Under Curfew), 2002, 17 minutes, Omar al Qattan (Palestine/U.K.)
• Distance from the Sun, 2003, 8 minutes, Eyad Zahra (Egypt/U.S.)
• The Way Out, 2001, 37 minutes, Samia Meskaldji (Algeria/France)
• Human Being (Insan), 1994, 27 minutes, Ibrahim Shaddad (Sudan)
• 11' 09" 01, 2003, 11 minutes, Youssef Chahine (Egypt)

4:00 p.m.

• My Lost Home, 2001, 19 minutes, Kamal El Mahouti (France/Morocco)
• Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said, 2003, 54 minutes, Emmanuel Hamon (U.S.)
• 500 Dunam on the Moon, 2002, 48 minutes, Rachel Leah Jones (Palestine)

7:30 p.m.

• Rana's Wedding: Jerusalem, Another Day, 2002, 90 minutes, Hany Abu-Assad (Palestine/The Netherlands)
• like twenty impossibles, 2003, 17 minutes, Annemarie Jacir (Palestine/U.S.)
• Post-screening discussion with Annemarie Jacir (filmmaker)

Sunday, September 26th

9:30 a.m.

• Movie and Mezza, traditional Arabic breakfast

10:00 a.m.

• A Man in Our House (Fi Baytona Ragol), 1961, 159 minutes, Henri Barakat (Egypt)

1:00 p.m.

• Khmissa, 2000, 14 minutes, Molka Mahdaoui (Tunisia/France)
• The Bookstore (El Kotbia), 2002, 100 minutes, Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba (Tunisia)

4:00 p.m.

• Driving an Arab Street, 2003, 35 minutes, Arthur Hurley (U.S./Egypt)
• Everything is Gonna Be Alright, 2003, 80 minutes, Tamer Ezzat (U.S./Egypt)

7:30 p.m.

• Independent Media in a Time of War, 2003, 29 minutes, Brenda Miller, Hudson Mohawk IndyMedia and Democracy Now (U.S.)
• Hopefully for the Best, 2004, 42 minutes, Raed Helou (Palestine)
• Post-screening discussion with Raed Helou (filmmaker)

This event is made possible by the support of the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, COMPAS, The Institute for Global Studies (University of Minnesota), the French Department (University of Minnesota), and the St. Paul Travelers Foundation.