2022 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour [In-Person Only]
2023-01-12 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 95-minute theatrical program of 7 short films curated from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival short film program, including three titles that won Festival awards.
Including:
Warsha

France & Lebanon (Director and Screenwriter: Dania Bdeir, Producer: Coralie Dias)
A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom. Fiction. Cast: Khansa. Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction.
Dania Bdeir is a Canadian-Lebanese writer and director. She’s a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and has an MFA in directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2019 she was selected as a Berlinale Talent and participated in its Short Film Station with Warsha. She is currently based in Dubai and is developing her first feature film.

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Movie: Sons of Eilaboun
2023-01-14 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
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Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EST; 7:00 PM Palestine Time.
24 minutes, English subtitles. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Hisham Zreiq.
SYNOPSIS
He choked and his eyes were full of tears, and with a trembling voice he said “I remember it as if it has just happened”, this is the way he ended the story, the story of a nine years old boy from a small village called Eilaboun (Eilabun), in Palestine 1948, the story of my father, when he was a refugee.

Free virtual screening of the film "TANTURA" directed by Alon Schwartz
2023-01-22 09:00 - 11:00 | WA
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Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EST; 7:00 PM Palestine Time.
94 minutes, English subtitles. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Israeli filmmaker Alon Schwartz.
Tantura investigates the massacre at the Palestinian village of Tantura in 1948 and the dogged work of one Israeli researcher to finally expose the truth.

Streaming: There is Field + panel discussion
2023-01-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Amnesty International Puget Sound AIPS and Local Group AI-270 will be presentingThere Is A Field this Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 6-8pm PT. The film will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Nada Elia, with Alicia Koustoulieris, Jesse Hagopian, and Jen Marlowe.
About the film:
In October 2000, a police officer shot and killed unarmed 17-year old Asel Asleh. His story is tragically familiar for Americans, but Asel was not killed in Ferguson, New York City, Atlanta, or Minneapolis. Asel was a Palestinian teenager who was murdered by Israeli police as he participated in a demonstration, calling for an end to the Israeli occupation and settler-colonization.
There Is A Field begins as a play about Asel’s life and his death, told from the perspective of his older sister, Nardin. Through Nardin’s struggle to cope with the murder of her brother, the play offers a uniquely personal lens for learning about intersecting systems of oppression, the root causes of state-sanctioned violence and structural racism. Learn more about the film.
About The Panelists:

Nada Elia PhD, (moderator) is a diaspora Palestinian scholar and activist who teaches in the American Cultural Studies program at Western Washington University WWU, and is the author of Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine.
Alicia Koutsoulieris, Amnesty International, USA country specialist for the Israel Occupied Territories – Palestinian Authority – IOPT-PA.
Jesse Hagopian is an educator, author, and part of the 2011 African Heritage Eyewitness Palestine delegation. Jesse’s African ancestors survived the middle passage and enslavement on plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Jen Marlowe is the founder of Donkeysaddle Projects and director and producer of the documentary film There Is A Field.

The free event will take place on Sunday at 3pm ET/6pm PT. Follow this link to register.

Amnesty International Puget Sound AIPS and Local Group AI-270 will be presentingThere Is A Field this Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 6-8pm PT. The film will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Nada Elia, with Alicia Koustoulieris, Jesse Hagopian, and Jen Marlowe.

Virtual screening of "On the Doorstep," directed by Sahera Dirbas
2023-01-28 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
SYNOPSIS
A documentary that shows how three generations of Palestinians in U.S from Bisharat family, have maintained their emotional attachment to their home in West Jerusalem, taken over by Israelis in 1948.
Among them a Valerie 21-year-old, who traveled across the world to visit her grandfather’s house to find out the truth she inherited about the house and managed to meet face to face the current Gisele Arazi 96-year-old Israeli occupant.

Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Objector"
2023-02-05 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
About the Film
Like all Israeli youth, Atalya is expected to become a soldier. Unlike most, she questions the practices of her country’s military, and becomes determined to challenge this rite of passage. Despite her family’s political disagreements and personal concerns, she refuses military duty and is imprisoned for her dissent. Her courage moves those around her to reconsider their own political positions and power to effect change. Objector follows Atalya to prison and beyond, offering a unique perspective of a young woman who seeks truth and takes a stand for justice.

CFFS 2023 – Hopeful Harmonies (Ages 8+) [Hybrid]
2023-02-05 12:00 - 13:30, 2023-02-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Series of short films. Includes one from the Arab world:
Two in-person showings and available to stream virtually (on your own schedule)

Wall Piano (بيانو الجدار)

PNW premiere!
Part music video, part magical realism, Wall Piano shows a wall as something more than just a barrier for a group of children living near the Qalandia checkpoint in Ramallah, Palestine, a frontline of the West Bank conflict.
(Asma Ghanem, Christopher Marianetti &Alexia Webster, Palestine, 2020, 3 min, nonverbal)

Virtual screening of the film "A Handful of Earth," directed by Sahera Dirbas.
2023-02-11 09:00 - 11:30 | WA
Saturday 2/11
Virtual screening of the film “A Handful of Earth,” directed by Sahera Dirbas.
The film examines the role played by oral histories in maintaining the bond between Palestinian refugees and the homes from which they were driven in 1948. Taking its title from the handfuls of earth many still keep from their original villages, the film focuses on refugees from the Tirat Haifa area.
Please click here for more information, film trailer and to register for viewing the film.

CFFS 2023 – The Young Rebels (Ages 8+) [Hybrid]
2023-02-11 16:30 - 18:00 | WA
Series of film shorts including:
The Colours of Humanity
North American premiere!

This short explores how immigration can be an overwhelming experience, but through the power of acceptance, can transform into a culturally rich experience for everyone. No matter what filters the world applies to us, we are all human.
(Zainab Sarwar, United Arab Emirates, 2022, 2 min, in English)

Also available to stream at your convenience at home!

Arab Film Series Online: Time for Ilhan
2023-02-22 - 2023-02-25 | Virtual
Ilhan Omar, a young, hijab-wearing mother of three, takes on two formidable opponents in a highly contested race for a seat in the Minnesota State Legislature. Up against a 43-year incumbent, Ilhan is the “outsider” – a Muslim, refugee, woman of color seeks to challenge the party’s status quo while simultaneously defying lingering gender norms within her own Muslim community.
TIME FOR ILHAN shadows Ilhan and her scrappy group of dedicated campaign staffers throughout the entire campaign’s dramatic uphill battle. A fresh and timely take on theclassic American Dream, the film offers an inspiring, stereotype-busting portrait of one of America’s brightest new political stars, at the start of her meteoric ascent from political newcomer to becoming one of the first Muslim Women in the U.S. Congress. Her story, part of a larger, unprecedented wave of growing diversity in elected office around the country offers a powerful and transformative reminder of the reflective, representative democracy that is truly possible.

Movie: Blue Caftan (Portland showing)
2023-03-03 | Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. The talented apprentice shows an utmost dedication in learning the art of embroidery and tailoring from Halim.
Slowly Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.
In Arabic with English subtitles.

Time: TBD, please check website

Virtual screening of the documentary film "Britain in Palestine 1917-1948"
2023-04-01 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
To register for this event please click here.
Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 7:00 PM Palestine Time 18 minutes, English. The film screening will be followed by Q&A discussion with Sir Vincent Fean, a British diplomat, and John McHugo, a British historian.
About the Film
The film investigates the contradictory promises and actions which defined British Mandatory rule in Palestine and laid the groundwork for the Nakba (the catastrophe) and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.

Salt of This Sea: Streaming
2023-04-06 - 2023-04-09 | Virtual
Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather’s savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Stubborn, passionate and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of “returning” to Palestine. Slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own internal anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, they know in order to be free, they must take things into their own hands, even if it’s illegal.

Streaming virtually through Arab Film Media Institute (AFMI)

The Desert Rocker: Streaming
2023-04-06 - 2023-04-09 | Virtual
THE DESERT ROCKER won Best Feature Documentary at last year’s Arab Film Festival and we are excited to host an in-person screening in NYC and to make it available for streaming online, together with a pre-recorded Talkback with director Sara Nacer.
This screening is presented in partnership with YallaPunk.
About The Desert Rocker:
The Desert Rocker is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia, a pioneer Gnawa artist. The first musician to break through the social barrier of this culture, she empowers and inspires women of all ages by reclaiming a musical tradition reserved for men for centuries. A singularly talented artist, she leads women to redefine their roles and challenge cultural norms, one musical performance at a time.

Movie: Sirens: Streaming
2023-04-06 - 2023-04-09 | Virtual
A powerful documentary, SIRENS is not to be missed! Join us in NY on April 8th or stream it online, together with a pre-recorded Talkback with director Rita Baghdadi.
This screening is presented in partnership with YallaPunk.
About Sirens:
On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and her thrash metal bandmates have big dreams but few opportunities. When the band’s appearance at a UK music festival isn’t the life-changer they had hoped for, Lilas comes home to Lebanon on the brink of collapse. At the same time, the complicated relationship between Lilas and her fellow guitarist Shery starts to fracture. The future of her band, her country, and her dreams now all at stake, Lilas faces a crossroad.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Rabbi's Cat at SIFF
2023-04-22 11:00 - 12:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
**Potentially problematic, red flag for me = movie based in Algeria but uses colonial language French**
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat – a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi’s voluptuous teenage daughter. Recommended for ages 12+.

Movie: Nine Parts: PBS Broadcast
2023-04-26 - 2023-04-30 | Virtual
Film available for screening through April 30, 2023

Nine Parts – PBS Broadcast
A film by Mike Mosallam, Heather Raffo and Nilou Safinya
Streaming on PBS – Watch now!
Uprooted after her father’s death during the pandemic, an Iraqi American woman attempts to grieve at the site of the oldest Iraqi Church in North America. What starts in profound isolation, becomes communal as Iraqi women, ordinary and extraordinary, come to her in spirit and ancestry with their personal stories of love and resilience. Together, they offer a celebration of the Iraqi female experience and an explicit warning – the divisions Iraq endured are not unique, Iraq is a bellwether for America now.
Nearly 20 years ago, 9 Parts of Desire premiered to widespread acclaim on London stages and Off-Broadway, later becoming a global theatrical phenomenon. Now, Heather Raffo adapts her multi-award-winning solo play about Iraqi women for the screen and for our current time. From Iraq to Michigan, Raffo transforms into a wide cross-section of Iraqi women in her inspiring exploration of love and grief within countries undone by division, violence and loss.
Watch an interview with Heather Raffo and AANM Public Programming Coordinator, Fatima Al-Rasool, on PBS NewsHour about the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Heather Raffo is a singular and outstanding voice in the American theater whose work has been championed by the New Yorker as “an example of how art can remake the world.” Having helped forge a new genre of Arab American theater, she’s spent her career writing and embodying stories of Iraq: from the lives and dreams of Iraqi women in her seminal work 9 Parts of Desire (2003), to the suicidal ideation of an Iraq war veteran in the opera Fallujah (2012), to the restless longings of an Iraqi refugee architect in Noura (2018). A multi award-winning writer and actor, she’s toured nationally and internationally: from the Kennedy Center to The Aspen Ideas Festival and from London’s House of Commons to the U.S. Islamic World Forum. Her newly released anthology, Heather Raffo’s Iraq Plays: The Things That Can’t Be Said, brings together two decades of her most groundbreaking contributions to the American theater and speaks to the bravery required to be at the forefront of a movement. Her newest Migration Play Cycle, her most ambitious theatrical imagining in scale and scope, situates themes around migration and the global economy. Being raised in the Midwest and the daughter of an Iraqi immigrant, Raffo has committed her artistic practice to working across all kinds of borders: on mainstages and in rural communities; with the military and in the Arab world; in swing states and in refugee facilities. She is uniquely positioned to explore what migration means for an ever-evolving American and global identity. Photo credit for headshot is: Satya Tisman Photography

Movie: Jaddoland: Streaming
2023-04-27 - 2023-04-30 | Virtual
Synopsis: JADDOLAND explores the meaning of home and the search for belonging across generations. When the filmmaker returns to her hometown in the Texas panhandle to visit her mother, an artist from Iraq, she turns her lens on her mother’s increasingly isolated life, as well as the beauty and solace that emerge through her creative process. Soon, the filmmaker’s charismatic grandfather arrives, still longing for the homeland he recently left. While the shadow of geopolitical and historical forces looms on the periphery, the filmmaker searches for unexpected moments of meaning in the everyday, subtly weaving threads between past and present, her mother’s work and her own. In doing so, she draws an artful and deeply intimate portrait of one family reimagining its relationships to the places they call home.
We are thrilled to present creative and award-winning documentary JADDOLAND, this month on the Arab FIlm Series online!

Online Screening: April 27-30
Free / $5 suggested donation
RSVP at arabfilmseries.org
Available in North America

Program includes a pre-recorded Q&A with filmmaker Nadia Shihab
Jaddoland, Nadia Shihab, USA, 2018, 90 min.
English

The Arab Film Series online is a monthly program of films and discussions with artists and filmmakers from the SWANA region and its diasporas, presented by ArteEast in partnership with the Arab American National Museum and Arab Film and Media Institute.

Break the Silence: Stories of Occupation Movies: Boycott
2023-04-27 18:00 - 20:00 | St Marks Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Avenue East, Seattle, WA, 98102-4398, United States
For several years the Saint Mark’s Mideast Focus Ministry has presented a series of film screenings each spring, featuring a wide variety of films, including documentaries, dramas, and comedies, that address the history and current situation in Israel/Palestine, as well as related justice issues. In 2021 and 2022 the film festival was offered almost entirely online, but 2023 they will offer in-person screenings, as well as hybrid options. As always, each film will be followed by a lively discussion with special guests—often the filmmakers themselves, or an expert in the topic of the film. Each screening and discussion will be offered on a Thursday evening. The dates and titles for the 2023 festival will be:

FEBRUARY 16 | My Tree
MARCH 2 | Inside Israeli Apartheid
MARCH 16 | Tantura
MARCH 30 | H2: The Occupation Lab
APRIL 13 | The First 54 Years
APRIL 27 | Boycott

Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks. To join, request the link for the film series by sending an email to: seattlemideastfocus@gmail.com

Women's Film Festival: Short Film Showcase IV
2023-05-07 18:15 - 19:30 | WA
SHORT FILM SHOWCASE IV

Sunday, May 7, 6:15 p.m. — Pickford Film Center (1318 Bay St., Bellingham)
Introduction
FILMS:

“Bienvenidos a Los Ángeles”–Directed by Lisa Cole / United States
“Made of Flesh”– Directed by Florence Rochat, Serena Robin / France
“A Little Vacation”–Directed by Eva Tavares / Canada
Sponsored by Mary and John O’Connell
“Hello to Me in 100 Years”–Directed by Wu-Ching-Chang / Taiwan
Sponsored by RL Widmann
“–تصال / The Call”—Directed by Shireen AyacheUnited Kingdom
Sponsored by Anne Hildebrand
“Love, Barbara”–Directed by Brydie O’Connor / United States
Director Q&A

SIFF movies (the Arab ones): various times!
2023-05-12 - 2023-05-29 | Varies (see notes)
Art for Everybody: Director, Miranda Yousef (Egyptian-American)
Thomas Kinkade was one of the most successful artists of his day, with millions of cozy cottage paintings sold across the U.S. On his passing in 2012, a newly discovered vault contained a series of darkly themed paintings that reveal a more complicated and troubled man than his most popular works implied.
Director Miranda Yousef, Producer Tim Rummel, and Subject Chandler Kinkade scheduled to attend.

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2023, 8PM SIFF Cinema Uptown

SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2023, 11AM SIFF Cinema Uptown

MONDAY, MAY 22 – MONDAY, MAY 29, 2023 SIFF Streaming

The Blue Caftan: Morocco

In this remarkable story of love, longing, and acceptance, middle-aged couple Mina and Halim run a traditional caftan boutique in Morocco. When a handsome young apprentice joins the shop, Halim’s desires are soon ignited.

TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2023, 5:30PM SIFF Cinema Uptown

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2023, 3:45PM AMC Pacific Place

MONDAY, MAY 22 – MONDAY, MAY 29, 2023 SIFF Streaming

Hanging Gardens: Iraq

When a 12-year-old “rubbish picker” in one of Baghdad’s dumps discovers a blonde sex doll amidst the mountains of detritus, he and a new friend use it to their financial advantage in this masterfully crafted look at necessity, survival, and the loss of innocence.

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2023. 8:30PM SIFF Cinema Uptown

SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2023, 2PM SIFF Cinema Uptown

MONDAY, MAY 22 – MONDAY, MAY 29, 2023 SIFF Streaming

Harka

A gripping sociopolitical thriller about a young Tunisian petrol bootlegger who, dreaming of a better life, is pushed to the brink by misfortune, injustice, and government corruption still in place over a decade after the Arab Spring.

SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2023, 4:30PM SIFF Film Center

MONDAY, MAY 15, 2023, 1:30PM, AMC Pacific Place

MONDAY, MAY 22 – SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2023, SIFF Streaming

A House in Jerusalem: Palestine
A Jewish-British child mourning the death of her mother moves to a house in Jerusalem, only to discover the ghost of an abandoned Palestinian girl in this stirring and supernatural coming-of-age drama. From the filmmakers of SIFF 2018’s The Reports on Sarah and Saleem.
Director Muayad Alayan and Producer Rami Musa Alayan scheduled to attend.

MONDAY, MAY 15, 2023, 6PM, AMC Pacific Place

TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2023, 1PM SIFF Cinema Uptown

WTF – All Turnt On (Mix of shorts: includes one from Lebanon called Sisters of the Rotation)
They’re wet, they’re wild, they’re turning a wheel for mysterious reasons. Don’t miss this year’s batch of laugh-out-loud oddities.
Various filmmakers expected to attend.
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 2023, 9PM, SIFF Cinema Egyptian

Seattle Arab Film Festival
2023-05-13 - 2023-05-14 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
The fourth iteration of the Seattle Arab Film Festival features 13 compelling shorts from a remarkable group of emerging and established filmmakers.
The films are divided into four themed screenings – each ticket includes the two themed screenings of the day – Short Documentaries + Loss and Resilience on Saturday, May 13, and Family Matters + Luck of the Draw on Sunday, May 14.
Each program includes films that will surprise, challenge, and delight audience members, while providing insight into the rich diversity of Arab voices, experiences, and talent.

Seattle Arab Film Festival: short documentaries
2023-05-13 19:00 - 20:15 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Showcasing a diversity of voices and stories, this program offers a nuanced and complex picture of Arab life.
TRT: 53 min

Abeille
(Mouna Ben Hammed, Tunisia, 2022, 7 min)

The powerful story of a Black woman from subsaharan Africa, now living in Tunisia, about her life in Tunis, the struggles she has faced, and her hopes for the future.

O’ud
(Ghassan Fadi Sidawi, Lebanon, 2023, 18 min)

A documentary chronicling the rise of the late refugee artist Mohammad El Agha in the Palestinian folk band Hanin and his personal connection to the filmmaker.

A Very Obnoxious Thing
(Ahmed Khalil Ali, Egypt, 2022, 15 min)

Three women of different ages share their personal fears as they try to remember their past and live in the present.

Conversations with an Actress
(Estephan Khattar, Lebanon, 2022, 13 min)

A Lebanese actress recounts her experiences over two years. She discusses Beirut, love, failure, immigration, and the obstacles she has faced in her life and career.

Seattle Arab Film Festival: Family Matters (shorts)
2023-05-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 2, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
This series of films explores the joys, challenges, and complexities of family life. Speaking to intimacy, alienation, and a spectrum of experiences in between, these films highlight the potential for each of us to hurt and to heal in our relationships with others.
TRT: 54 min

STORY

(Mohamed Bouhari, Morocco, 2023, 19 min)
Every night, a fisherman tells his son about his heroic adventures at the bottom of the sea. One day the child discovers the truth.

Beyond the Sea

(Melinda Delaloye, Lebanon, 2022, 15 min)
A single mother who struggles to connect with her son is forced to face traumatic memories when he asks to watch the sunset by the sea.

Talk to Me

(Ribal Chedid, Lebanon, 2023, 20 min)
Conflict arises during a family visit. Separated by a locked door, the dysfunctional dynamic intensifies, and the past resurfaces.

AANM’s Arab Film Festival 2023
2023-05-17 - 2023-05-21 | WA
Wednesday, May 17 – Sunday, May 21, 2023
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, May 17-21, 2023!
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.

Virtual Movies Showing

Under the Fig Trees

Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee – deeper connections.

You Resemble Me

When two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.

Shorts Program: An Ode to Our Collective Memory

This shorts program highlights films that recall and pay homage to our past while also carving out our current identities.

Hanging Gardens

When a young Iraqi rubbish picker rescues an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, where friends become enemies and nothing is certain in an explosive mix of love, war and madness.

The Taste Of Apples Is Red

Syrian director Ehab Tarabieh’s The Taste Of Apples Is Red which is set against the background of the director’s native Golan Heights and revolves around two brothers who are reunited after 47 years apart.

Doc Block: Palestine
Shorts Programs

This block of documentaries highlights the life, struggles, joy and stories from Palestine.

Voices from the Holy Land: Online Film Salon
2023-05-21 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Two documentary films, Voices across the Divide and Born in Deir Yassin, pull back the carefully constructed curtain of “a land without people for a people without a land.” Since 1948, a monumental effort has been made to promote a romantic mythology of Israel’s creation and to hide the brutal violence. But firsthand accounts by both the oppressor and the oppressed, the expeller and the exiled, reveal the ongoing wounds. Nothing is resolved by dialogue alone, yet nothing will be resolved without it. Any hope of coexistence begins when the historical truth is rediscovered and acknowledged. It begins here.
Watch the film for free at your convenience; then join the Q&A Discussion with:
Alice Rothchild: Author, filmmaker, and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School (Retd.)
Emad Moussa: Palestinian-British journalist, researcher, and human rights activist
Huda Giddens: Palestinian American educator, Nakba survivor
Ahlam Muhtaseb (moderator): Author, filmmaker, and Professor of Media Studies at CSUSB
You must register to join the discussion & receive access to the film: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-May2023
Watch the Trailers: 1) vimeo.com/818747654 2) vimeo.com/818744242
How this will work:
1 – Register here for the Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon:
Tinyurl.com/VFHL-May2023
2 – Once you register, you will get a confirmation email from Zoom with a link to the meeting and a link with to watch the film. (Save this confirmation letter as the meeting link is unique to your email and you must have this to participate.)
3 – Watch the film at your convenience before the event. Then join us with your thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&A Discussion on Sunday May 21, 2023 at 3 pm ET/ 12 noon PT.

The Presence + Absence of the Palestinian Archive: Mizna Film Series
2023-05-25 - 2023-05-28 | Virtual
The 2023 Mizna Film Series highlights archival works and initiatives that document Palestine’s struggle for liberation.
In May we present The Void Project by Palestinian filmmaker Azza El Hassan. Founded in 2018, The Void Project explores the presence and absence of visual archives as a discourse in wartime narrative formation.
Jerusalem Flower of All Cities and Palestine in the Eye, two Palestinian films restored by The Void Project and The Making of a Revolutionary Film aka The Place 2 as well as Kings and Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image, films by El Hassan herself, will screen both in-person and virtually this month. Learn more about the films.
Watch IN PERSON on May 24, 2023 at 7pm at Trylon Cinema.
Watch WORLDWIDE VIRTUALLY May 25–28, 2023.

Other People’s Children (Moroccan-French actor)
2023-05-26 16:30 - 18:30, 2023-05-26 19:15 - 21:30 | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
What does it mean to care for another person’s child? A single 40-year-old high school teacher must ask herself this question when she falls in love with Ali and especially his four-year-old daughter in the latest from Rebecca Zlotowski (An Easy Girl).
