To participate in free screenings of Slingshot Hip Hop for high school students in Berkeley, San Jose, San Francisco (sponsored by the General Union of Palestine Students, GUPS) and Los Angeles, contact schools@aff.org.
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Free and open to the public
Burned Hearts
October 21st, 4:00pm
Media Theater, UC Santa Cruz
Life after the Fall
October 21st, 7:00pm
Leavey Auditorium, USC
School of International Relations
Samira's Garden
October 22nd, 7:30pm
Melnitz Theater, UCLA
Center for Near Eastern Studies
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Thursday, October 16th, 7:00pm
Castro Theatre, San Francisco
Celebrating filmmakers from the Arab world and beyond, the Noor Awards will be presented on Opening Night at the Castro Theatre on October 16th. A jury composed of distinguished members of the film and academic communities select the winning film and AFF will award a cash prize to the director in four categories: Best Long Fiction ($2000), Best Long Non-Fiction ($2000), Best Short Fiction ($500), and Best Short Non-Fiction ($500). The Arab Film Festival's Board of Directors will also present a Lifetime achievement award honoring the work of the late Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine.
Monday, October 20th, 6:30pm
Alliance Française, San Francisco ($5-10 sliding scale)
Expected participants include directors, producers and actors from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Syria.
Thursday, October 23rd, 6:30pm Reception, 7:30pm Panel
Los Angeles: WGA-West, 2nd Floor Multi-Purpose Room
By invitation only
Berkeley: Friday, October 24th
7:00pm Screening - Buy Tickets, 9:30pm Concert
Concert Location: Eastside Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland
Concert Tickets: $20 General Admission, $15 Student/Youth - Buy Concert Tickets
Please note: AFF Festival Pass is not valid for this event.
Concert Sponsored by Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC)
Los Angeles: Saturday, October 25th
3:30pm Screening - Buy Tickets, 8:00pm Concert
Concert Location: Tom Bradley International Hall, UCLA
Concert Sponsored by Al-Awda, Right to Return Coalition
AFF and Sunbula, Arab Feminists for Change present:
Wednesday, October 22nd, 7:00pm
La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley ($5-10 sliding scale)
Reception followed by screening of Storm from the South and panel discussion. Sponsored by La Peña.
Sunday, October 26th, 2:00pm, Shattuck Cinemas, Berkeley
Screening and discussion on women in prison with visiting Yemeni filmmaker, Khadija Al-Salami
Saturday, October 18th, 2:00pm, Clay Theatre, San Francisco
Sunday, October 26th, 1:00pm, Writers Guild of America Theater, Los Angeles
At the Day's End, The Maid, A Winter Day's Visit, Clean Hands, Dirty Soap
Beneath the surface of the Egyptian film industry, long considered the Hollywood of the Arab world, an independent Egyptian film movement is burgeoning. Made up of young filmmakers not afraid to take on the societal problems of their country headfirst, these four short films eschew melodrama for realism and offer a fresh way to view a country long captured on the silver screen.
Experimental nonfiction program curated by Peter Limbrick
Tuesday, October 28th, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
6:30pm Program 1: In the Real of the Senses - Nights and Days, (Posthumous), Merely a Smell, Roundabout Shatila
9:00pm Program 2: Immediacy of Place - Against the Light, Waiting for the Day, Refugees for Life
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