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Corner Store Feb 14th and Feb16th
Corner Store In ninety minutes, Corner Store tells the story of Yousef as he travels back to his fractured homeland to finally reunite with his family. But a lot has changed in a decade, and Yousef must confront the new realities in both his family and his country while still keeping alive his dreams of a new life in America with his wife and children. 7:15pm Sun. Feb 14 Roxie Theater, San Francisco - Buy Tickets Director |
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Arabesque at Fattoush Restaurant September 17th
The Arab Film Festival Presents Arabesque An evening of film, food, & friends to benefit the13th Annual Arab Film Festival  Fattoush Restaurant
Thursday, September 17, 2009 6-7pm: Wine Reception & Short Film Screening 7-10pm: Dinner and Open Wine Bar $60 per person Address: 1361 Church St, San Francisco, CA 94114 Limited spaces are available: Click Here to Purchase Tickets |
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AMREEKA - Special Screening
PRESENT AMREEKA  Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois. Told with heartfelt humor by writer-director Cherien Dabis in her feature film debut, Amreeka is a universal journey into the lives of a Palestinian family of immigrants and first-generation teenagers caught between their heritage and the new world in which they now live and the bittersweet search for a place to call home.Amreeka recalls Dabis's Palestinian family's memories of their lives in rural America during the first Iraq War. The film stars Haifa-trained actress Nisreen Faour as Muna, and Melkar Muallen plays her 16-year-old son, Fadi. Also in the cast are Hiam Abbass (The Visitor, Paradise Now), Alia Shawkat ("Arrested Development"), Yussef Abu-Warda and Joseph Ziegler. Be sure to buy tickets early! Seating is limited and we recommend you purchase your tickets online. Purchase Tickets Now Thursday, August 27th @ 7pm Embarcadero Center Cinema One Embarcadero Center Cinema, Promenade Level San Francisco $20 General / $15 Students Free four-hour validated parking is available after 5 PM Monday-Friday and after 10 AM Saturday & Sunday at any Embarcadero Center Parking Garage. With validation, reduced rates apply at all other times. Co-Presented by The Jewish Film Festival and the San Francisco Film Society "Amreeka" opens in theaters in SF on September 18th |
Salt of This Sea - May 7th 2009
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Environs of Seeing
THE ARAB FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS: The Environs of Seeing: new documentary video from Lebanon, Syria, and the UK, curated by Peter Limbrick. Co-presented with Kino21 (http://www.kino21.org) The work in these programs is marked by an interest in place, perception, and the relationship between them-the environs of seeing. The videos in the first program, all made around Beirut, reflect on the sensed experience of war, everyday life, and the videomaker's role in documenting it; those in the second program show how place mediates artistic expression and even identity itself. YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS, SAN FRANCISCO, TUES OCTOBER 28 Introduced by Peter Limbrick 6:30 pm Program 1: In the Real of the Senses - Videos from Lebanon Nights and Days, Lamia Joreige (Lebanon, 2008, 17min) Posthumous, dir. Ghassan Salhab (Lebanon, 2007, 28min) Merely a Smell, Maher Abi Samra (Lebanon, 2007, 11min) Roundabout Chatila, Maher Abi Samra (Lebanon, 2005, 50min) (Total Running Time 106 min) 9 pm Program 2: Immediacy of Place - Videos from Lebanon, Syria, and the UK Against the Light, dir. Koutaiba al Janabi (UK/Czech Republic, 2007, 15min) Waiting for the Day, dir. Meyar al Roumi (France/Syria, 2003, 50min) Refugees for Life, dir. Hady Zaccak (Lebanon, 2008, 48min) (Total Running Time: 113) PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE, BERKELEY, TUES NOV 4, 7.30pm (part of the Alternative Visions series). Introduced by Peter Limbrick In the Real of the Senses - Videos from Lebanon (see title listing above)
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SAN FRANCISCO, October 16th
 Opening Night Film: Waiting for Pasolini by Daoud Aoulad-Syad Following the Awards ceremony, AFF presents the Bay Area premiere of Waiting for Pasolini, the latest feature by Moroccan director Daoud Aoulad-Syad. Thursday, October 16th, 2008 Castro Theater, San Francisco 6:00pm Reception (by invitation only) 8:00pm Awards Ceremony and Opening Film Waiting for Pasolini Noor Awards on Opening Night Join us for a very special evening at the historic Castro Theater for the 2nd annual Noor Awards Ceremony to take place Opening Night, October 16th 2008. All nominated competition films will be judged by our distinguished local jury members. As part of the Noor Award, a cash prize to the director of the winning film will be given as follows: Best Long Fiction 2000 USD Best Long Non-Fiction 2000 USD Best Short Fiction 500 USD Best Short Non-Fiction 500 USD The Arab Film Festival will also present a Life Achievement Award honoring the work, talent, and creativity of the late Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine. |
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SAN FRANCISCO, SEPT 25th
Sept 25th co-presentation of KINO21 with ARAB FILM FESTIVAL HOW WE FIGHT: CONSCRIPTS, MERCENARIES, TERRORISTS, AND PEACEKEEPERS This series presents international documentaries that explore soldiering and depict the experience of war from the point of view of those on the ground. From Argentina, Russia, Iraq, Germany, France, Holland and the U.S., several of these films are US premieres. On Thursday, September 25 we begin with Iraqi Short Films, a brand new compilation of videos shot in battle by soldiers and militia members in Iraq. Subsequent programs include video diaries of the battlefield and pre- or post-combat rumination, extended observational portraits and interview-based works. There are depictions of Russian conscripts in Chechnya, PKK rebels in the mountains of Iraq, American veterans returned from Vietnam, and mercenaries and peacekeepers stationed across the globe, from Bosnia to Rwanda, from the Middle East to the USA. How We Fight: Conscripts, Mercenaries, Terrorists and generous support of the Potrero Nuevo Fund of the Tides Foundation, the LEF Foundation, the Arab Film Festival and Goethe Institut San Francisco.
PROGRAM 1: Iraqi Short Films (Mauro Andrizzi, Argentina, 2008 94 minutes) THURSDAY. SEPT 25, 2008, 8 PM ATA, 992 Valencia Street at 21st Street, $6, co-presented with the ARAB FILM FESTIVAL. "Methodological, well-targeted propaganda or unbridled outbursts, these images, in their own myopic, implacable, rough ways, relate the conflict. [...]The daily life of a warrior captured in the harsh brutality of a visor made into a lens, without the relief of a counter shot."-Jean-Pierre Rehm, FID Marseille Kino21's series "How We Fight: Conscripts, Mercenaries, Terrorists and Peacekeepers" begins with Iraqi Short Films by Argentine director Mauro Andrizzi, a compilation of short videos shot in the midst of war, whether by US or British soldiers, Iraqi militia members, or corporate workers. These are not "films" per se. They are a mix of slices of life recorded on video (many shot while firing on the enemy or being fired upon), pithy propaganda pieces, and soldiers' visions of war as music video. They are crudely shot fragments, some rife with raw fear, some gloating over momentary victory. Filmed mainly as records, for friends, family, or fellow fighters, and at one point or another put on the web or on local television, the pieces were culled by Andrizzi over several months. Ranging from the banal to the intense, from the shocking to the darkly humorous, Andrizzi's compilation depicts war as experienced, articulated, and vividly imagined by those actually fighting and dying in it. His addition of a handful of texts, from Mark Twain to C. Wright Mills to Dick Cheney, and sporadic manipulation of a few images suggests a bleak vision of this war's inexorable chaos and horror. But it is a vision that combines the responsibility to LOOK with critical empathy, analysis, and the desire to comprehend some of its impact. |
