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SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival:  To A Land Unknown
DESCRIPTION:Want a discount on your ticket? Use code ARABISH51 for $3 when purchasing tickets! \nMahdi Fleifel\, who made the great documentary A World Not Ours (SIFF 2013) about the Ein el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon\, where his parents were born\, returns to the Festival with his fiction debut\, To a Land Unknown. \nThe refugees in this story have made out of their camp and travelled to Athens\, where they are stranded en route to Germany. Chatila is clever and resourceful\, and it falls to him to come up with a plan; Reda\, his cousin\, is sweet but hapless\, owing in part to a weakness for drugs. To raise the money they need for fake passports\, they resort to increasingly desperate crimes: stealing\, sex work\, human trafficking. To sustain themselves\, they nurture the fantasy of the café they plan to open in Germany\, where Chatila’s wife will cook\, and they’ll make enough money to bring the rest of their family\, currently stuck in the camp. \nWhile films about refugees are not uncommon\, what sets this film apart is the way the director puts us squarely in Chatila and Reda’s shoes as they try to figure out how to reach their final destination\, how to keep themselves alive in the meanwhile\, and how to do it all without losing their humanity in the process. \nOther Showtimes: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSATURDAY\, MAY 24\, 2025\, Shoreline Community College\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8:30 PM
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-to_a_land_unknown/
LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Movie
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SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival:  Everybody Loves Touda
DESCRIPTION:Want a discount on your ticket? Use code ARABISH51 for $3 when purchasing tickets! \nIn the latest film from Nabil Ayouch (Horses of God\, SIFF 2014) co-written with his wife\, director Maryam Touzani (The Blue Caftan\, SIFF 2023)\, Touda dreams of being a sheikha\, or traditional Moroccan folk singer. More than that\, she is determined to be one\, which is fortunate because the road ahead is a rocky one. A single mother with a young son to support\, she sings at parties and in bars in her provincial town. But these opportunities are limited and fraught with risk\, as her male audience’s “love” often shades into something more proprietary and threatening. She sets her sights on Casablanca and\, leaving her son with her parents and ignoring the disapproval of her conservative brother\, she heads to the big city. There Touda meets an older musician\, a violinist who recognizes her ambition and her potential\, and becomes a sort of mentor. With his help\, she sets about to master the aita\, a Moroccan musical genre rooted in poetry about the many struggles of life\, from the personal to the political. As her singing improves\, she can command higher fees and a more elite audience. But in a culture where female performers are as often eroticized and stigmatized as venerated\, what does it really mean to be loved?
URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-touda-2/
LOCATION:SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 511 Queen Anne Ave N\,\, Seattle\, WA\, 98109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Movie
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