Twin Cities Arab Film Festival Archives

2024

Twin Cities Arab Film Festival

Bye Bye Tiberias

Wednesday, Sep 25th

18th Arab Film Festival Opening Night Wednesday, September 25 at 7:30pm SOLD OUT – A limited number of RUSH tickets may be available at the door. ABOUT THE FILM In her early twenties, Hiam Abbas left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actor in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, […]

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Revolutionary Tales Shorts Segment

Thursday, Sep 26th

18th Arab Film Festival FREE for Students REVOLUTIONARY TALES FROM SUDAN Revolutionary Tales is an in-person and virtual program guest-curated by Sudanese filmmaker Rafa Renas. This series of films depicts various perspectives and revolutionary currents in Sudan’s recent history. ABOUT THE FILMS The Spider-man of Sudan Dir. Rafa Renas and Phil Cox • 2022 […]

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Tajouje

Thursday, Sep 26th

18th Arab Film Festival Thursday, September 26 7pm, Gathering8pm, Outdoor Film GATHERING UNDER THE BRIDGE: Join us beginning at 7:00pm under the Third Avenue Bridge, outside of the Main Cinema. Festival sponsors Baba’s Hummus will have a food truck and Batroun Wines will serve Lebanese wine for a suggested donation + DJ Jacques will be […]

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Life Is Beautiful

Friday, Sep 27th

18th Arab Film Festival Friday, September 27 at 5pm ABOUT THE FILM In 2014, while a young Palestinian director Mohamed Jabaly was visiting a film festival in Tromsø, Norway, Israel launched a war on Gaza and the borders to his home were closed. It will be seven years before he can return home and see […]

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The Burdened

Friday, Sep 27th

18th Arab Film Festival Friday, September 27 at 7pm ABOUT THE FILM Aden, Yemen, 2019: Civil war has been raging for five long years. Isra’a and Ahmed are in a constant battle to provide for their five children––putting food on the table, dealing with daily power outages, and finding gasoline for their van makes life […]

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Anxious in Beirut

Friday, Sep 27th

18th Arab Film Festival Friday, September 27 at 9:15pm The screening of Anxious in Beirut (93 min) is preceded by The Diary of a Sky (44 min). ABOUT Anxious in Beirut Dir. Zakaria Jaber • Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar, Spain • 2023 • 93 min • Documentary • Arabic In the ever-present desire to capture, record, and […]

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Three Promises

Saturday, Sep 28th

18th Arab Film Festival Saturday, September 28 at 12:00pm The screening of Three Promises (61 min) is preceded by pal/imp/sest (32 min) and The Poem We Sang (20 min). ABOUT Three Promises Dir. Yousef Srouji • Palestine • 2023 • 61 min • Documentary • Arabic Three Promises is the story of a mother and her […]

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A Fidai Film

Saturday, Sep 28th

18th Arab Film Festival Saturday, September 28 at 2:30pm The screening of A Fidai Film (78 min) is preceded by Undr (15 min). ABOUT A Fidai Film Dir. Kamal Aljafari • Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brazil, France • 2024 • 78 min • Essay/Documentary • English, Arabic, Hebrew In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded […]

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No Other Land

Saturday, Sep 28th

18th Arab Film Festival Saturday, September 28 at 5pm ABOUT THE FILM Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families—the largest single act of forced transfer […]

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To a Land Unknown

Saturday, Sep 28th

18th Arab Film Festival Saturday, September 28 at 7pm ABOUT THE FILM After fleeing a camp in Lebanon, two Palestinian cousins––Chatila and Reda––are stranded in Athens, living in an underground limbo. Desperately seeking a way to reach Germany, they find themselves caught in an uncontrollable spiral. As they save to pay for fake passports, Reda […]

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The Teacher

Saturday, Sep 28th

18th Arab Film Festival Saturday, September 28 at 9:15pm ABOUT THE FILM A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his commitment to political resistance with emotionally supporting one of his students. When a student is killed by an Israeli settler, the teacher’s political life becomes intertwined with his role in the community. He reveals his […]

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Inshallah a Boy

Sunday, Sep 29th

18th Arab Film Festival Sunday, September 29 at 1pm ABOUT THE FILM After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal struggles to cope with the upheaval in her life. However, her pain is soon compounded by the possibility of losing her home to her brother-in-law. Desperate to keep her home and provide a stable life […]

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dreamworlds

Sunday, Sep 29th

18th Arab Film Festival SCREENS AT THE WALKER ART CENTER Sunday, September 29 at 3:30pm Reserve Here Mizna’s 18th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival closes with a pair of special screenings and a reception co-presented with the Walker Art Center. “Filmmakers make the light. There is always poetry in images and images in poetry: imagination, […]

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Goodbye Julia

Sunday, Sep 29th

18th Arab Film Festival CLOSING NIGHT AT THE WALKER ART CENTER Sunday, September 29 at 7pm Mizna’s 18th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival closes with a pair of special screenings and a reception catered by Baba’s co-presented with the Walker Art Center. Closing reception will be held in the Bazinet lobby before the film with […]

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