BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ArabishWay - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:ArabishWay X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://arabishway.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for ArabishWay REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20180101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T151500 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20250430T193927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T194428Z UID:10003064-1748006100-1748013300@arabishway.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/To-a-Land-Unknown_Fest25_Outreach_1080x1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20250430T192841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T192920Z UID:10003060-1747918800-1747926000@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival: Happy Holidays DESCRIPTION:Want a discount on your ticket? Use code ARABISH51 for $3 when purchasing tickets! \nOscar® winner Scandar Copti (Ajami) is back with a new film about a middle-class Arab family in Israel and the impact of the country’s divisions on every aspect of their lives\, mundane and momentous alike. \nFouad’s business is in trouble\, which has plunged him into debt. This has major implications for his wife\, Hanan\, a woman very invested in maintaining the family’s social position\, especially in anticipation of their elder daughter Leila’s upcoming wedding. Son Rami has a different kind of problem. His Jewish Israeli girlfriend is pregnant\, but how would they raise a child in a country where their relationship must be kept secret? This question takes on a new urgency when the couple become the object of mysterious threats. Meanwhile\, younger daughter Fifi has a secret of her own. After a minor car accident\, she ends up in the hospital where her medical records\, including her sexual history\, come to light\, causing further upheaval for the family and Fifi herself. \nThis ensemble of characters (mostly played by non-professional actors) and their stories create a rare portrait of Arab and Jewish lives in Israel and the effects of social\, political\, and religious divisions on every aspect of those lives\, mundane and momentous alike. \nOther Showtimes: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, MAY 22\, 2025 AMC Pacific Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1:00 PM URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-happy-holidays-2/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Happy-Holidays_Fest25_Outreach_1080x1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T153000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20250430T193114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T193207Z UID:10003062-1747834200-1747841400@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival: Khartoum DESCRIPTION:Want a discount on your ticket? Use code ARABISH51 for $3 when purchasing tickets! \nWhat begins as a street-level documentary of five ordinary lives in Khartoum—a civil servant\, a tea vendor\, a resistance volunteer\, and two young bottle collectors—evolves into a radically inventive chronicle of a city at the edge of collapse. Shot on donated iPhones by four Sudanese filmmakers working alongside British director Phil Cox\, production was interrupted when war erupted in April 2023. The filmmakers fled Sudan and regrouped in Nairobi\, where they transformed the project using green screen re-enactments\, animation\, and dreamlike visual reconstructions. \nThe film’s five interwoven stories bear witness to lives disrupted by conflict but never reduced by it. A mother sings lullabies to shield her daughter; two boys flee militias on the back of an invisible lion; a government worker hides from a regime unraveling around him. Through surreal vignettes and raw detail\, Khartoum refuses the distancing lens of crisis coverage. \nSo while Khartoum began as a vérité documentary shot in Sudan\, it became a diasporic production: completed in exile\, shaped by displacement\, and creatively reassembled across borders. A collaborative act of remembrance and resistance\, it is not simply about a city under siege—it is made by those who fled it\, carrying its stories with them. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-khartoum/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Khartoum_Fest25_Outreach_1080x1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T233000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20250430T192936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T193318Z UID:10003061-1747690200-1747697400@arabishway.com SUMMARY:Seattle International Film Festival: Khartoum DESCRIPTION:Want a discount on your ticket? Use code ARABISH51 for $3 when purchasing tickets! \nWhat begins as a street-level documentary of five ordinary lives in Khartoum—a civil servant\, a tea vendor\, a resistance volunteer\, and two young bottle collectors—evolves into a radically inventive chronicle of a city at the edge of collapse. Shot on donated iPhones by four Sudanese filmmakers working alongside British director Phil Cox\, production was interrupted when war erupted in April 2023. The filmmakers fled Sudan and regrouped in Nairobi\, where they transformed the project using green screen re-enactments\, animation\, and dreamlike visual reconstructions. \nThe film’s five interwoven stories bear witness to lives disrupted by conflict but never reduced by it. A mother sings lullabies to shield her daughter; two boys flee militias on the back of an invisible lion; a government worker hides from a regime unraveling around him. Through surreal vignettes and raw detail\, Khartoum refuses the distancing lens of crisis coverage. \nSo while Khartoum began as a vérité documentary shot in Sudan\, it became a diasporic production: completed in exile\, shaped by displacement\, and creatively reassembled across borders. A collaborative act of remembrance and resistance\, it is not simply about a city under siege—it is made by those who fled it\, carrying its stories with them. \nOther Showtimes: \n\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY\, MAY 21\, 2025 – AMC Pacific Place \n\n\n\n\n\n\n1:30 PM URL:https://arabishway.com/event/seattle-international-film-festival-khartoum-2/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Khartoum_Fest25_Outreach_1080x1080.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T230000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20240425T031528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T032050Z UID:10002378-1715720400-1715727600@arabishway.com SUMMARY:SIFF: The Mother of All Lies (Morocco) DESCRIPTION:How do you reconstruct the past when all traces of that past have been erased? This is the dilemma that confronts filmmaker Asmae El Moudir\, in terms of both her personal history and the history of her country. In terms of her personal history\, her tyrannical grandmother has forbidden the taking of photographs in the family\, seemingly as part of a larger obfuscation of the past. In the absence of photographs\, El Moudir enlists her father\, a successful builder\, to help her construct an elaborate diorama of the street where the family lived during her childhood\, in the Sebata district of Casablanca. She populates the diorama with miniature clay figurines of her family\, friends\, and neighbors. Their real-life counterparts are then invited to revisit their memories of that time and place—in particular the 1981 Casablanca Bread Riots\, protests over the price of bread that were brutally suppressed by the police and military. On El Moudir’s street alone\, a girl her age named Fatima was killed in the street; neighbors Saïd and Abdallah were seized and tortured. These events have been suppressed in El Moudir’s family history\, as well as in the national history. But El Moudir recreates them\, retrieving what might otherwise be lost; bringing family secrets and memories to light\, and achieving some measure of justice\, if only in miniature. \n  URL:https://arabishway.com/event/siff-the-mother-of-lies/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Mother-of-All-Lies-1080-x-1080-px-e1714015142831.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240513T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240513T223000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20240424T181329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T034308Z UID:10002375-1715634000-1715639400@arabishway.com SUMMARY:SIFF: Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano [Lebanon] DESCRIPTION:While shooting Costa Brava\, Lebanon (SIFF 2022)\, the film crew’s world stopped when Lebanon’s Port of Beirut suddenly exploded\, killing over 200 people and injuring thousands more. What does it mean to strive for human dignity and make art amid a country’s continuing turmoil? \n  URL:https://arabishway.com/event/dancing-on-the-edge-2/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Dancing-on-the-Edge-of-a-Volcano-1080-x-1920-px-e1713982359410.png ORGANIZER;CN="Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)":MAILTO:info@siff.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240511T211500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240511T231500 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20240425T033046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T214558Z UID:10002383-1715462100-1715469300@arabishway.com SUMMARY:SIFF: Voy! Voy! Voy! [Egypt] DESCRIPTION:How far would you go to change your life? In Egypt’s official Oscar® submission\, Hassan is desperate to leave his home country. With few options left\, he pretends to be blind so he can join a disabled soccer team headed to Poland. Inspired by an unbelievable true story. URL:https://arabishway.com/event/siff-voy-voy-voy/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Voy-Voy-Voy-1080-x-1920-px-e1714016053545.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190604T213000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190604T233000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20190502T103802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T103848Z UID:10000099-1559683800-1559691000@arabishway.com SUMMARY:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) - What Walaa Wants DESCRIPTION:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) – What Walaa Wants (About Palestine)\nGrowing up in Balata\, a refugee camp in the West Bank\, Walaa dreams of being a police officer with the Palestinian National Authority\, the entity governing the Palestinian territories. This documentary follows her progress over five years\, from ages 15 to 21\, as she pursues that goal. She’s got her work cut out for her; rebellious and headstrong\, she is often at odds with those around her. She doesn’t adapt easily to the discipline of basic training or the tough love of her commanding officer. At home\, a complicated relationship with her mother poses its own challenges (she was 7 when her mother was sent to prison\, convicted of helping a would-be suicide bomber). And the outside world in which she lives her daily life is one of uncertainty\, repression\, and violence. But despite these obstacles\, Walaa is tenacious; she is charting her own path and struggling to follow it. With remarkable access to her subject at home\, at school\, and at work\, in interactions with family\, friends\, and colleagues\, filmmaker Christy Garland tells the story of a young woman determined to take charge of her life. \n— Justine Barda \n  \nShowtimes and locations can be found here: https://www.siff.net/festival/what-walaa-wants \nFriday\, May 17\, 2019 – AMC Pacific Place\, 1:30pm \nTuesday\, June 4\, 2019 – AMC Pacific Place\, 9:30pm \nWednesday\, June 5\, 2019 – SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 4pm URL:https://arabishway.com/event/what-walaa-wants-2/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/whatwalaawants.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190602T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190602T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20190502T095447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T102515Z UID:10000094-1559500200-1559507400@arabishway.com SUMMARY:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) - For Sama DESCRIPTION:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) – For Sama (Syrian Director\, about Syria)\nWinner of both the Audience Award and Grand Jury Award for Documentary at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival\, For Sama stands as both a harrowing witness to the Syrian tragedy as it unfolded in Aleppo and a touching love letter from a mother to her young child. While the bombs are falling across her city\, director Waad al-Kateab films her first-person diaristic letter to her recently born daughter Sama\, uncertain she will survive long enough for Sama to know her mother outside of the videos she shoots. Unsparing in its details and unflinching in what it captures\, al-Kateab’s work reveals the brutal impact of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s civil war\, relaying its impact in palpably humanistic terms. Both in the home they share and at the hospital where Waad’s husband labors as a direct responder to those affected by the daily violence\, al-Kateab’s camera captures the human cost of life under perpetual conflict more directly and powerfully than perhaps any other film since Five Broken Cameras. To quote Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter\, “The result is a series of deeply powerful images showing the human casualties of a war that most of us witnessed from our TV sets or computer screens.” \n  \nDirector Biography \nWaad Al-Kateab is a documentary filmmaker who became a citizen journalist in 2011\, after protests broke out across Syria against the Assad regime. In 2016\, she began?documenting the Syrian conflict in a series of films titled “Inside Aleppo.” These news reports received almost half-a-billion views online\, and won 24 awards\, including the 2016 International Emmy for breaking news coverage. She and her family were eventually evacuated from Aleppo in 2016. For Sama is her first feature film. Edward Watts is an Emmy award-winning\, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker who has directed over 20 narrative and documentary films that illuminate the resilience of the human spirit despite harrowing circumstances. \n  \nShowtimes and locations can be found here: https://www.siff.net/festival/for-sama \nSunday\, June 2\, 2019 – AMC Pacific Place\, 6:30pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, June 3\, 2019 – SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 4pm URL:https://arabishway.com/event/for-sama/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ForSama.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190531T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190531T203000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20190503T015603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190503T015730Z UID:10000110-1559327400-1559334600@arabishway.com SUMMARY:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) - Funke DESCRIPTION:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) – Funke (Arab director)\nn 2015\, Evan Funke was one of the brightest stars on the American culinary scene. Bucato\, his first critically lauded restaurant\, served capacity crowds night after night. But when allegations of fraud and financial malfeasance forced its closure\, Funke became persona non grata in the Los Angeles restaurant world. Director Gab Taraboulsy’s engrossing documentary portrait of the chef follows Funke as he embarks upon his comeback. Still healing from the emotional pain of his past failure\, Funke struggles to balance his artistic aspirations with the rank commercial difficulties of opening his new trattoria\, Felix\, on the most competitive street for restaurants in America. His journey toward redemption sees him voyaging through the pasta schools of Bologna (to reconnect with his mentor\, Alessandra Spisni)\, the culinary archaeological streets of Bari\, and the obsessive laboratories of Tokyo as he reconnects with the best artisan pasta makers in the world. Throughout this journey\, Taraboulsy delivers keen insight into the chef’s philosophy and intricate techniques as he handcrafts fresh\, heirloom pastas that even the most avid Italian foodies may never have seen or tasted. Passionate and thoughtful\, Funke is an ode to the art of pasta and a forthright look at the stark realities of the restaurant business. \n— Dan Doody \nDirector Biography\nDeeply passionate about the culinary world\, Gab Taraboulsy has been unearthing stories\, as a writer\, director\, and producer\, in kitchens and restaurants all over the world. His documentary series “The Grill Iron” (2014) garnered a James Beard Nomination\, and “Heritage” (2016) won a Webby Award for Best Documentary Series. Returning to Los Angeles’s competitive food scene\, Funke (2018) is Taraboulsy’s documentary feature debut. \nSponsored by KIXI 880 AM\, Princi\, Punch Drunk \nShowtimes and locations can be found here:  https://www.siff.net/festival/funke \nMonday\, May 27\, 2019 – Lincoln Square\, 6:00pm \nFriday\, May 31\, 2019 – AMC Pacific Place\, 6:30pm \nSaturday\, June 1\, 2o19 – SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 3:00pm URL:https://arabishway.com/event/siff_funke-2/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/funke.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190530T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190530T210000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20190502T101837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T102925Z UID:10000096-1559242800-1559250000@arabishway.com SUMMARY:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) - Tel Aviv on Fire DESCRIPTION:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) – Tel Aviv on Fire (Palestinian Director)\nIn this clever comedy from writer/director Sameh Zoabi\, Salam is a hapless 30-something production assistant on his uncle’s TV show\, a popular Palestinian soap opera called “Tel Aviv On Fire.” Set in 1967\, just a few months before the start of the Six-Day War\, the show is a huge hit with audiences on both sides of the divide. Things start looking up for Salam when an offhand remark impresses the show’s star and results in his promotion to writer. The promotion even impresses Miriam\, Salam’s ex-girlfriend\, whom he hopes to win back. Living in Jerusalem\, he must pass through the Ramallah checkpoint every day to get to the studio. One day he’s interrogated by Israeli military commander Assi\, whose wife just happens to be a huge fan of the show. Assi is full of ideas for improving the script (and impressing his wife)\, which works to Salam’s advantage—until Assi and the show’s producers want to take the story in distinctly different directions. With the season finale looming\, it’s up to Salam to figure out a resolution that will keep everyone happy. \n— Justine Barda \nDirector Biography\nSameh Zoabi was born in 1975 in Iskal\, a Palestinian village near the city of Nazareth. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a dual degree in Film Studies and English Literature before earning a Fulbright Fellowship to earn his MFA in Filmmaking from Columbia University in 2005. With films like Tel Aviv On Fire (2018)\, Zoabi seeks to invoke humor in difficult narratives\, stating\, “We talk about Palestine being a place that is very hard\, but I always remember people laughing all the time.” In addition to filmmaking\, Zoabi is an adjunct professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts\, Hunter College\, and Columbia University’s MFA program\, teaching courses in direction\, production\, and screenwriting.\n \nSponsored by Diageo Americas\, Inc.\, The Fools \nShowtimes and locations can be found here: https://www.siff.net/festival/tel-aviv-on-fire \nThursday\, May 30\, 2019\, AMC Pacific Place\, 7pm \nFriday\, May 31\, 2019\, SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 3:30pm URL:https://arabishway.com/event/tel-aviv-on-fire/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/tel_aviv_on_fire.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190528T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190528T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20190502T030113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T102742Z UID:10000090-1559061000-1559068200@arabishway.com SUMMARY:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) - EXT. Night DESCRIPTION:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) – EXT. Night (Egyptian director\, About Egypt)\nThe latest film from SIFF favorite Ahmad Abdalla (Microphone\, Rags and Tatters\, Decor) is an exploration of life in contemporary Cairo as seen through the eyes of three characters who come together for one 24-hour period. Moe is a film director\, and the film opens on the set of his current project\, which is in turmoil. His personal life is no better; his girlfriend has recently left him\, and his novelist friend has been sentenced to prison for using “profound language” in his work. Heading across town to edit\, he is picked up by taxi driver Mustafa\, but due to Cairo’s notorious traffic\, their progress is slow. They take a detour to Mustafa’s nephew’s place where they encounter Hala\, a sex worker and one of Mustafa’s earlier fares. Together the three embark on a meandering journey around town which lasts the rest of the night\, and takes the middle-class Moe into neighborhoods and circumstances that he might not otherwise experience\, given Cairo’s social segregation. Class\, gender\, and religion all contribute to the shifting dynamics among the three characters\, in this portrait of Egyptian society in the aftermath of the failed revolution. \nDirector Biography\nEgyptian filmmaker Ahmad Abdalla studied music in Cairo before shifting his career to film editing in 2003. He directed his first feature film Heliopolis in 2009\, one of the first independent Egyptian films to be released theatrically in Egypt\, and his award-winning film Microphone (2010) was selected among the best 100 Arabic films in history by the Dubai Film Festival. After writing and directing Rags and Tatters (2013) and Decor (2014)\, both of which showed at SIFF\, EXT. Night (2018) is Abdalla’s fifth feature film. \nSponsored by KING 5 \nShowtimes and locations can be found here: https://www.siff.net/festival/ext-night \nSaturday\, May 25\, 2019\, Lincoln Square\, 8:30pm \nMonday\, May 27\, 2019\, SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 8:00pm \nTuesday\, May 28\, 2019\, AMC Pacific Place\, 4:30pm URL:https://arabishway.com/event/ext-siff-3/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ext.movie_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190520T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190520T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20190502T104458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T111920Z UID:10000102-1558369800-1558377000@arabishway.com SUMMARY:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) - Yommedine DESCRIPTION:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) – Yommedine (Egyptian director and About Egypt)\nBashay\, the protagonist of Yomeddine\, is that rare cinematic character you may never have seen onscreen before. A lifelong resident of a leper colony north of Cairo\, where he married and made a life as a garbage collector\, he decides one day to search for the family who left him there as a child. With his young friend Obama (like “the guy on TV”) and his donkey Harby\, Bashay sets out on his journey in a film that is part road movie\, part buddy comedy\, and part affecting neorealist drama. The bittersweet story is told with clear-eyed candor\, but also with sly humor and warm humanity. “Yomeddine” is Arabic for Judgment Day\, referenced here by characters who hope one day to be judged by their inner worth rather than their outward appearance. In this remarkable first feature\, director A. B. Shawky revisits the leper colony where he earlier made a documentary short\, and met Rady Gamal\, the charismatic non-professional actor who plays Bashay. Shawky’s documentary roots and Gamal’s performance both contribute to the film’s naturalistic style\, enhanced by Federico Cesca’s cinematography (Patti Cake$\, SIFF 2017 and Dead Pigs\, SIFF 2018). \n– Justine Barda \nDirector Biography\nEgyptian/Austrian director A.B. Shawky met the lead actor for Yomeddine at an Egyptian leper colony that had been the subject of an earlier documentary short he made while a student in Cairo. He expanded the idea into a nonfiction film for his thesis for NYC’s Tisch School of the Arts. \nShowtimes and locations can be found here: https://www.siff.net/festival/yommedine \nFriday\, May 17\, 2019 – SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 8:30pm \nMonday\, May 20\, 2019 – AMC Pacific Place\, 4:30pm URL:https://arabishway.com/event/yommedine-2/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/yommedine.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190517T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190517T153000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214122 CREATED:20190502T103342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T103753Z UID:10000098-1558099800-1558107000@arabishway.com SUMMARY:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) - What Walaa Wants DESCRIPTION:SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival 2019) – What Walaa Wants (About Palestine)\nGrowing up in Balata\, a refugee camp in the West Bank\, Walaa dreams of being a police officer with the Palestinian National Authority\, the entity governing the Palestinian territories. This documentary follows her progress over five years\, from ages 15 to 21\, as she pursues that goal. She’s got her work cut out for her; rebellious and headstrong\, she is often at odds with those around her. She doesn’t adapt easily to the discipline of basic training or the tough love of her commanding officer. At home\, a complicated relationship with her mother poses its own challenges (she was 7 when her mother was sent to prison\, convicted of helping a would-be suicide bomber). And the outside world in which she lives her daily life is one of uncertainty\, repression\, and violence. But despite these obstacles\, Walaa is tenacious; she is charting her own path and struggling to follow it. With remarkable access to her subject at home\, at school\, and at work\, in interactions with family\, friends\, and colleagues\, filmmaker Christy Garland tells the story of a young woman determined to take charge of her life. \n— Justine Barda \n  \nShowtimes and locations can be found here: https://www.siff.net/festival/what-walaa-wants \nFriday\, May 17\, 2019 – AMC Pacific Place\, 1:30pm \nTuesday\, June 4\, 2019 – AMC Pacific Place\, 9:30pm \nWednesday\, June 5\, 2019 – SIFF Cinema Uptown\, 4pm URL:https://arabishway.com/event/what-walaa-wants/ LOCATION:AMC Pacific Place\, 600 Pine St suite 400\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States CATEGORIES:Movie ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arabishway.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/whatwalaawants.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR