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Movie: The Teacher
2025-04-12 | Rio Theater on Broadway, 1660 E Broadway, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
In this gripping drama by Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning director Farah Nabulsi (The Present), Palestinian schoolteacher Basem (Saleh Bakri) faces personal turmoil after a tragic incident involving his son. He finds solace in a deep bond with his student Adam and British social worker Lisa (Imogen Poots). Meanwhile, an American attorney and his wife push for the return of their son, an Israeli soldier held by a Palestinian resistance group, leading to tensions over a potential prisoner exchange. The intertwining stories highlight themes of empathy and conflict, culminating in a powerful narrative marked by unexpected twists.

Opens 4/12

Social Justice Film Festival: Threads of a Revolution (streaming)
2025-04-14 - 2025-04-20 | University Heights Center, 5031 University Way, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
When Janet Biehl edited her late partner Murray Bookchin’s approach to participatory politics in the 1970s, she could never have imagined that this work would one day take her half-way across the globe. In this film, Janet explores how Murray’s political theories were adapted to ignite a women-led revolution and bring about remarkable societal transformations in North East Syria. Just as civil war erupted in 2011, imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan recognised a unique opportunity for Syria’s Kurdish community: inspired by Murray’s theories, Ocalan’s followers were to establish self-governance within Syria, rather than fighting for an independent Kurdish state. The autonomous region of Rojava was created and Janet felt compelled to explore first-hand the impact-potential of Murray’s ideas, which, once ahead of their time, finally found a place to be put into practice. Against the ruins of war, Janet meets the women leading this revolution as they come to terms with life after ISIS. She visits academies that promote gender equality, teach feminist theories, and empower women from traditionally conservative communities to build a truly egalitarian society. Murray believed that true democracy could only be achieved by replacing existing political structures with a new participatory style of decision-making, grounded in the community. Janet learns that cities once destroyed by war now indeed host thriving neighbourhood assemblies and communes: direct democracy has replaced the dictatorship of President Bashar Al Assad. However, threats loom as Turkey’s President Erdogan invades parts of Rojava. Janet discovers the importance of armed self-protection groups in defending the new-gained freedom – and the cost to do the same.

Movie: The Teacher
2025-04-25 | Yakima Cinema, 1305 N 16th Ave, Yakima, WA, 98902
In this gripping drama by Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning director Farah Nabulsi (The Present), Palestinian schoolteacher Basem (Saleh Bakri) faces personal turmoil after a tragic incident involving his son. He finds solace in a deep bond with his student Adam and British social worker Lisa (Imogen Poots). Meanwhile, an American attorney and his wife push for the return of their son, an Israeli soldier held by a Palestinian resistance group, leading to tensions over a potential prisoner exchange. The intertwining stories highlight themes of empathy and conflict, culminating in a powerful narrative marked by unexpected twists.

Opens 4/25

Theater: One Family in Gaza
2025-04-26 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Gray Coast Guildhall, 11 Old Church Road, Quilcene, WA, 98376
An original play by Crystal Zevon
Based on texts from Yasser in Gaza
In November 2023, Crystal Zevon, a longtime activist for Palestine, began a text conversation with a young 33 year old Palestinian man in Gaza. Yasser is a civil engineer, a husband and the father of three young children under the age of seven. For more than a year, and continuing, Yasser and Crystal have exchanged texts, photos and videos on almost a daily basis. These unedited texts create the basis for telling the poignant, terrifying, and sometimes joyful story of one family’s struggle to survive through a genocide. Yasser’s texts are juxtaposed against news items of corresponding dates, and the thoughts and feelings of someone living in comfort and safety oceans away.
One Family in Gaza is a play about simply that – One Family in Gaza .
The objective for creating this play is three-fold:

To offer a play that is profound in its reliance on the truths disclosed through a relationship grounded in the reality of two distant and distinct realities, yet a play so simple that anyone can perform it anywhere – from a dining room table reading to a staged performance.

To humanize Palestinians by creating a relationship with one family whose loves, fears, hopes and dreams are not unlike yours.

To motivate those who see the play to continue the discussion, to delve beneath the media’s glossing over of a genocide and take action to expose it.
It is through identification with the basic human truths revealed in the daily life of one family that we can and must create change.

More information to come (please check website)

Cadence 2025 – my more-than-me [Hybrid event]
2025-04-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Tapping into the collective unconscious, this showcase excavates shared knowledge buried just below the surface. These films remind us that the roots of humanity and nature are intertwined. When pavement erases habitat and the evolutionary thread is lost, we can weave poetry into a home, recombine scattered lines, and dream possible futures.
*There is a Palestinian film maker included! – Come out and support!

Seattle Arab Film Club: monthly screening
2025-04-30 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
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SAFF is thrilled to bring you The Arab Film Club, a monthly screening of contemporary and classic Arab cinema in Seattle starting April.
Screenings will take place on the last Wednesday of the month at the @nwfilmforum.
Arabic Calligraphy by @mortada_gzar
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Movie: Bye Bye Tiberius
2025-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
“Bye Bye Tiberias,” a documentary by Lina Soualem, explores the lives of four generations of Palestinian women and their experience with displacement, legacy, and memory. The film follows Hiam Abbass, an actress who left her Palestinian village for a career in Europe, as she returns with her daughter, Lina Soualem, to examine her family’s history and the impact of exile on their lives. The documentary weaves together present-day interviews, family footage, and historical archives to trace the story of Palestinian women and their enduring bonds.

Movie: The Encampments
2025-05-02 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-05-04 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-09 16:00 - 18:00 | The Beacon, 4405 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
THE ENCAMPMENTS follows student organizers at some of the world’s most prestigious universities as they take a historic stand against their institutions’ investments in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, igniting one of the largest student movements in history which continues to have far-reaching effects on US and world policies today.
Filmed on the ground and in real-time as these events were unfolding, THE ENCAMPMENTS features detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil and takes viewers inside America’s student uprising with incredible intimacy and urgency. Professors, whistleblowers from inside Ivy League administrations, and student activists shed light on a moment that captivated the nation’s attention and continues to make headlines today.
“What makes THE ENCAMPMENTS artistically triumphant is its sense of contemporary and historical detail, owed to both footage shot by the filmmakers, as well as by the protesters themselves. In the process, co-directors Kei Pritsker and Michael T. Workman craft a work of cinema that’s as rigorously journalistic in its arguments as it is nakedly sentimental.” – IndieWire
“This is more than a student protest—it’s a generational struggle for justice. Students have always led the charge for justice, from the sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement to the campus protests against South African apartheid. The encampments that started at Columbia are part of that legacy, inspiring millions of people around the world. The film ensures the students in US and Gaza are heard, their actions are remembered, and the fight for Palestinian liberation continues.” – Macklemore
“Khalil remains detained at an ICE facility in Louisiana amid a legal battle to prevent his deportation from the U.S. after the Trump administration ordered his removal… The legal challenge to Khalil might ultimately come down to the Supreme Court, which would decide how far the secretary of state can determine whether a permanent resident can be removed for speech.” – Axios

Movie: No Other Land: SIFF
2025-05-02 16:30 - 18:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Director:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Country:Palestine, Norway
Running Time:95 min.
Producer:Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematographers:Rachel Szor
Editors:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Music:Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Language:Arabic, Hebrew, English
US Distributor:Cintetic Handling
International Sales:Autlook

TICKETS
Other showtimes:

FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

2:00 PM7:30 PM

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

Movie: The Teacher
2025-05-02 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-02 19:10 - 21:00, 2025-05-03 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-03 19:10 - 21:00 | Cententa Films, 3800 Finnerty Road University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8P 5C2, Canada
The title character is Basem El-Saleh (Saleh Bakri), a divorced man who teaches in a school on the West Bank where most of his male students have already spent time in Israeli detention centers. Two of those students, Yacoub and Adam, are brothers, with Yacoub a brawny type who doesn’t do well in school and Adam his studious younger brother. They come home one day after school to find that their house is being demolished by the Israelis, who then present them with a bill and threaten to throw them in jail if they can’t pay… “The Teacher” is charged, angry and incredulous about the injustices and indignities visited upon Palestinians there; it’s an effective polemic that views the situation through a variety of characters from a single perspective. Nabulsi struggles to hold it all together at times, but she hasn’t lost her ability to tell a big story through smaller individual journeys. And while her movie flirts with happier resolutions, it’s not interested in hanging on to false hopes for long. – The Wrap

Movie: Leila and the Wolves at the Beacon
2025-05-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-05-04 17:00 - 19:00 | The Beacon, 4405 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
Forty years ago, this landmark film by Lebanese director Heiny Srour (THE HOUR OF LIBERATION HAS ARRIVED) centred the less visible stories and histories of women’s resistance in Lebanon and Palestine through an audacious feminist rewriting. Now re-emerging in a new restoration, LEILA AND THE WOLVES revolves around the eponymous Leila (Nabila Zeitouni), a London-based Lebanese woman who, in pondering her future within the limits of the patriarchal imagination, begins to question the long-hidden roles that women have had in Arab history, including how they entwine with the Palestinian resistance movement.
A photography exhibition, organised by a male friend and chronicling the Palestinian struggle, intrigues Leila further. When she questions why there are only photographs of men, he responds casually that women simply weren’t present. Leila’s visceral rejection of this response sets her on a time-travelling journey from the early 1900s to the 1980s, as well as into her own future – or what it will be like if she merely accepts women’s lack of historical agency.
LEILA AND THE WOLVES weaves together fictional drama, memory, myth and archival footage (from sources ranging from the films of Palestinian director Mai Masri to the archives of UNRWA and the Imperial War Museum) to conjure images of active, activist and defiant women – a restitution of sorts, which reverberates around the world. In an interview from 2020, the filmmaker says: “Nowadays, LEILA is travelling the world again, more relevant than ever; my unconscious and the collective unconscious of the women of the Middle East spoke together throughout the extreme conditions of making this film.”
“Heiny Srour’s LEILA AND THE WOLVES is a film of monumental resolve and ambition, determined to address the contradictions within the anti-colonial struggle. With a single actress playing multiple characters in different historical moments, the film dispenses with teleological linearity to emphasize the recurrence of oppression and the consequent need for constant and multifarious opposition. Its restored relevance is not only thematic but methodological: here’s a film that defiantly disregards any moralist binary of good versus evil, us versus them, to champion the immense and composite task that is liberation from all shackles, wherever and whomever we are.” – Celluloid Liberation Front

Movie: No Other Land: SIFF
2025-05-02 19:30 - 21:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Director:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Country:Palestine, Norway
Running Time:95 min.
Producer:Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematographers:Rachel Szor
Editors:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Music:Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Language:Arabic, Hebrew, English
US Distributor:Cintetic Handling
International Sales:Autlook

TICKETS
Other showtimes:

SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

2:00 PM7:30 PM

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

Movie: No Other Land: SIFF
2025-05-03 13:30 - 15:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Director:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Country:Palestine, Norway
Running Time:95 min.
Producer:Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematographers:Rachel Szor
Editors:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Music:Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Language:Arabic, Hebrew, English
US Distributor:Cintetic Handling
International Sales:Autlook

TICKETS
Other showtimes:

SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

2:00 PM7:30 PM

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

Movie: No Other Land: SIFF
2025-05-03 16:30 - 18:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Director:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Country:Palestine, Norway
Running Time:95 min.
Producer:Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematographers:Rachel Szor
Editors:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Music:Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Language:Arabic, Hebrew, English
US Distributor:Cintetic Handling
International Sales:Autlook

TICKETS
Other showtimes:

SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

2:00 PM7:30 PM

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

Movie: No Other Land: SIFF
2025-05-03 19:30 - 21:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Director:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Country:Palestine, Norway
Running Time:95 min.
Producer:Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematographers:Rachel Szor
Editors:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Music:Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Language:Arabic, Hebrew, English
US Distributor:Cintetic Handling
International Sales:Autlook

TICKETS
Other showtimes:

SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

2:00 PM7:30 PM

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

Movie: The Encampments
2025-05-04 12:30 - 14:00 | Vashon Theater, 17723 Vashon Highway SW, Vashon, WA, 98070

Movie: No Other Land: SIFF
2025-05-04 14:00 - 16:00 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Director:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Country:Palestine, Norway
Running Time:95 min.
Producer:Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematographers:Rachel Szor
Editors:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Music:Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Language:Arabic, Hebrew, English
US Distributor:Cintetic Handling
International Sales:Autlook

TICKETS
Other showtimes:

SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

7:30 PM

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

Movie: No Other Land: SIFF
2025-05-04 19:30 - 21:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Director:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Country:Palestine, Norway
Running Time:95 min.
Producer:Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematographers:Rachel Szor
Editors:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Music:Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Language:Arabic, Hebrew, English
US Distributor:Cintetic Handling
International Sales:Autlook

TICKETS
Other showtimes:

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

Movie: No Other Land: SIFF
2025-05-05 16:30 - 18:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Director:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Country:Palestine, Norway
Running Time:95 min.
Producer:Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematographers:Rachel Szor
Editors:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Music:Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Language:Arabic, Hebrew, English
US Distributor:Cintetic Handling
International Sales:Autlook

TICKETS
Other showtimes:

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

7:30 PM

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

Movie: No Other Land: SIFF
2025-05-05 19:30 - 21:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Director:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Country:Palestine, Norway
Running Time:95 min.
Producer:Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematographers:Rachel Szor
Editors:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Music:Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Language:Arabic, Hebrew, English
US Distributor:Cintetic Handling
International Sales:Autlook

TICKETS
Other showtimes:

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

Arab Film Festival (some virtual)
2025-05-07 - 2025-05-11 | Virtual
Wednesday, May 7 – Sunday, May 11, 2025
AANM’s Arab Film Festival
AANM proudly hosts the annual Arab Film Festival (AFF) featuring the best of critically acclaimed and award-winning Arab American and Arab world films, many of which are unlikely to reach traditional American commercial theaters and often make their regional or national debut at AFF. This year, the festival will take place virtually and in-person.
AFF showcases Arab and Arab American films for fans of Arabic-language movies and adventurous art-film lovers seeking new perspectives and outside-the-box thinking. We pride ourselves on creating a safe space, a platform for Arab and Arab American films and filmmakers and to give a voice to Arab and Arab American artists and their stories.
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Movie: No Other Land: SIFF
2025-05-07 16:30 - 18:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Director:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Country:Palestine, Norway
Running Time:95 min.
Producer:Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematographers:Rachel Szor
Editors:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Music:Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Language:Arabic, Hebrew, English
US Distributor:Cintetic Handling
International Sales:Autlook

TICKETS
Other showtimes:

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

Movie: No Other Land: SIFF
2025-05-08 16:30 - 18:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Director:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Country:Palestine, Norway
Running Time:95 min.
Producer:Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematographers:Rachel Szor
Editors:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Music:Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Language:Arabic, Hebrew, English
US Distributor:Cintetic Handling
International Sales:Autlook

TICKETS
Other showtimes:

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM

Movie: No Other Land: SIFF
2025-05-09 16:30 - 18:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Director:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Country:Palestine, Norway
Running Time:95 min.
Producer:Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematographers:Rachel Szor
Editors:Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Music:Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Language:Arabic, Hebrew, English
US Distributor:Cintetic Handling
International Sales:Autlook

TICKETS
Other showtimes:

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

7:30 PM

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

1:30 PM4:30 PM7:30 PM

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025, SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM7:30 PM
