Arab Film Festival 2021

We are putting the finishing touches to AFF2021’s schedule and can’t wait to share it! In the meantime, here’s a little preview of what’s coming:

• A selection of shorts from Iraq and Lebanon
• Our annual Queer Lens
• Award winning features including Moss Agate, Our River…Our Sky, and 200 Meters
• A spotlight on documentaries directed by women
• and more!

Moss Agate (Lebanon, 2021)
Beirut, summer 2019.  The filmmaker experiences a descent into the abyss. His health is at stake and his film community is falling apart.  His actress friend Tamara is the last one to leave…

Our River…Our Sky (Iraq, 2020)
In a typically mixed Baghdadi neighborhood in 2006, a community of ordinary people try to live their everyday lives amidst the threat of unpredictable violence. At the heart of these intersecting stories we find Sara, a single mother and novelist. With the news of Saddam Hussein’s sudden execution shortly before the New Year, Sara and her neighbors brace themselves for an uncertain future. Yet, like a miracle, each is able to sustain a fragile sense of hope.

200 Meters (Palestine, 2020)
Mustafa and his wife Salwa live 200 meters apart in villages separated by the Israeli border wall. One day he gets a call every parent dreads: his son has been injured in an accident. Rushing to cross the Israeli checkpoint, Mustafa is denied on a technicality. But a father’s love won’t give up and he will do anything to reach his son. A 200 meter distance becomes a 200 kilometer odyssey, as Mustafa, left with no choice, attempts to smuggle himself to the other side of the wall.