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NOOR AWARD WINNERS
Noor Award for Best Feature Fiction
Paloma Delight (Algeria) - Nadir Mokneche
Honorable Mention for Best Feature Fiction
The Yellow House (Algeria) - Amor Hakkar
Noor Award for Best Short Fiction
Clean Hands, Dirty Soap (Egypt) - Karim Fanous
Honorable Mention for Best Short Fiction
Tenbak (UAE) - Abdullah Hassan Ahmed
Noor Award for Best Feature Documentary
Life After The Fall (Iraq) - Kasim Abid
Noor Award for Best Short Documentary
Out Of The Frame (Iraq) - Nizar Annadawi
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Our mission each year is to offer inspiring films that illuminate Arab lives and present authentic narratives, providing insights into the beauty, talent, and diversity of Arab culture. In the process we achieve another important goal - helping to rectify negative stereotyping of Arabs in the American mainstream media. This year's program includes films from Morocco, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Palestine, France, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and the United States. Reflecting on life's meaning, sense of place, love and acceptance, these films help us realize that the Arab experience is one aspect of the universal human experience.
Celebrating filmmakers from the Arab world and beyond, the Noor Awards were presented on Opening Night at the Castro Theatre on October 16th. A jury composed of distinguished members of the film and academic communities selected the winning films and AFF awarded a cash prize to the director in the following categories:
Best Long Fiction, Best Long Non-Fiction, Best Fiction Short, and Best Non-Fiction Short. The Arab Film Festival's Board of Directors also presented a Lifetime achievement award honoring the work of the late Egyptian film Director Youssef Chahine.
The AFF would like to give special thanks to the jury members: Nezar AlSayyad, Jamal Dajani, Dr. Jess Ghannam, Irina Leimbacher, Simone Nelson, and Torange Yeghiazarian.
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OPENING NIGHT AT THE CASTRO
Thursday, October 16th
Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco
7:00pm Noor Awards Ceremony
8:00pm Opening Film: Waiting for Pasolini
Join us for a very special evening at the historic Castro Theatre. Following the 2nd annual Noor Awards ceremony, AFF presents the Bay Area premiere of Waiting for Pasolini,
the latest feature by Moroccan director Daoud Aoulad-Syad.
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LOS ANGELES CENTERPIECE EVENT
Friday, October 24th
WGA Theater, 135 S. Doheny Drive, Beverly Hills
6:00pm Centerpiece Reception
8:00pm Centerpiece Film: Captain Abu Raed
AFF kicks off its second year in L.A. with the
Los Angeles Premiere of Captain Abu Raed,
winner of the 2008 Sundance Audience
Award, by Jordanian director Amin Matalqa.
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SLINGSHOT HIP HOP & DAM CONCERTS
East Bay, Friday, October 24th
7:00pm Slingshot Hip Hop
9:30pm Concert @ Eastside Arts Alliance, Oakland
Sponsored by Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) - Buy Concert Tickets
Los Angeles, Saturday, October 25th
3:30pm Slingshot Hip Hop
8:00pm Concert @ Tom Bradley Int'l Hall, UCLA
Sponsored by Al-Awda, Right to Return Coalition
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