October 2024
Ibrahim Shaddad, Eltayeb Mahdi, Suliman Elnour
ARAB FILM SERIES PRESENTS Founded in April 1989 by Ibrahim Shaddad, Eltayeb Mahdi and Suliman Elnour, just months before Omar Albashir’s military coup, the Sudanese Film Group (SFG) is a collective of filmmakers with a goal to maintain and develop Sudanese cinema. After returning from their film studies abroad, the members spread their love of cinema through film productions,…
Tareq Rantisi, Mustafa Abu Ali, Arab Loutfi, Basma al-Sharif, Mary Jirmanus Saba, Sami Al Salamoni
IMAGES HIJACKING SCREENS FOR LIBERATIONSnapshots Reflecting Palestine (1973-2023) Featuring: Mustafa Abu Ali, Basma al-Sharif, Arab Loutfi, Sami Al Salamoni, Mary Jirmanus Saba, and Tareq Rantisi. Curated by Ali Hussein AlAdawy Screening Online: October 11 – 25, 2024RSVP: artearchive.orgAvailable worldwideFREE / $5 suggested donation In-Person Screening: October 30, 6:45 PMAddress: Weis Cinema, Bard CollegeScreening introduced by Adam Haj Yahia and followed by a Q&A between…
“Full of rewarding fissures and detours, embracing every complication and every contradiction that comes up. A brilliant political portrait of a city.”—Michael DeForge, author of Birds of Maine Date: October 12, 5:30pm EDTLocation: Storm BookstoreAddress: 118 Norman Ave. Brooklyn, NY, 11222Free w/ RSVP Co-presented with Storm Bookstore Reserve Your Spot HERE Beirut is an intimate and poetic look…
ArteEast is thrilled to co-presents a night of words and music featuring poetry by Rumi with acclaimed translator Haleh Liza Gafori Date: Tuesday, October 22 · 7:30 – 9pm EDTLocation: Bowery Poetry ClubAddress: 308 Bowery New York, NY 10012Tickets: $20 Purchase Tickets HERE A night of words and music featuring poetry by Rumi with acclaimed translator Haleh…
September 2024
Basma al-Sharif, Emily Jacir, Coleman Collins, Sky Hopinka, Joe Namy, Oraib Toukan
ON LANDSCAPES, RUINS AND PATTERNS OF REMEMBERING Featuring work by: Basma AlSharif, Coleman Collins, Sky Hopinka, Emily Jacir, Joe Namy, and Oraib ToukanCurated by Fawz Kabra Screening of Remind me to Remember to Forget, Mnemonics of Shape and Reason, 15 Palestinian Minutes in Palestine, Lydda Airport, Libretto-o-o, Specular fiction, and CAPITALFollowed by Q&A with Emily Jacir and Coleman Collins ON LANDSCAPES, RUINS AND PATTERNS OF REMEMBERING is…
August 2024
Yousef Srouji, Noor Abed
Join Us at Brooklyn Commons Park with Three Promises by Yousef Srouji + our songs were ready for all wars to come by Noor Abed Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024Location: Brooklyn Commons Park, 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201Admission: FREE with RSVPTickets : FREE W/ RSVP Event Schedule: This program is presented in partnership with Rooftop Films. Three PromisesDirected by Yousef SroujiPalestine / US…
The NNAAC Fellowship program is a leadership development training program that has been developed through the National Network for Arab American Communities. The program is designed for Arab American undergraduate juniors or seniors or graduate level college students, or recent graduates. Fellows will be expected to work 16 hours per week in an Arab American…
July 2024
Kaveh Nabatian, Djibril Diop Mambéty
TRACES OF THE UNKNOWN brings together films addressing the human condition through stories and mysterious occurrences connected to spirits and gods derived from West African and Afro-caribbean diasporic religions. Featuring Djibril Diop Mambety’s Le Franc (1994) and Kaveh Nabatian’s Sin La Habana(2020) and Kite Zo A (2023), the filmmakers present narratives rooted in temporal realities and contexts, revealing cycles as well as…
Hind Shoufani
Join us for this month’s Arab FIlm Series online feature film: Trip Along Exodus: a personal, political and poetic documentary by Palestinian poet and filmmaker Hind Shoufani! Screening Online: July 8 – 18, 2024RSVP: arabfilmseries.orgFREE / $5 suggested donationAvailable Worldwide Trip Along Exodus, Hind Shoufani, Syria/ Lebanon/ US/ Palestine, 2015, 120 min. Arabic and English with Arabic/English Subtitles Trip…
June 2024
Sherko Abbas
, 2019
, 60 min