Category: Film
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Insurgent Transmissions: A Palestine Film Series
Insurgent Transmissions is a film series highlighting the varied Palestinian experience. Made by contemporary Palestinian makers, the films depict the many ways that Palestinians resist occupation in their daily lives and filmmaking practices. Beginning with Annemarie Jacir’s touching family drama, Wajib, the programming will unfold as a series of transmissions: Jacir chooses the second film,…
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Mizna Film Series 2024: Feminist Visions–SWANA Cinema by and about Women
In 2024, the quarterly Mizna Film Series (MFS) returns to the Trylon Cinema with a program entitled Feminist Visions. Since the beginning of cinema’s history, women have always worked both in front of and behind the camera. For this series, we focus on Arab/SWANA women who participated in creating and capturing images from the 1970s,…
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Announcing the 2023 Arab Film Festival Awards
Films selected to be part of the 2023 Arab Film Festival films are in the running to win juried awards for Best Documentary, Best Narrative, and Best Short Film as well as Audience Awards. Winners of the Audience and Jury Awards for Best Narrative and Documentary films win a $500 cash prize while the winners…
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Call for Submissions: The Cinema Issue
Call for submissions, Mizna: The Cinema Issue, Winter 2023. The deadline has been extended to June 26, 2023. Mizna is a critical platform for contemporary literature, film, art, and cultural production centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. For more than twenty years, Mizna has been creating a decolonized cultural…
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Mizna Film Series 2023: Resistant Images- Restoring, Recovering and Reimagining Palestinian Archival Film
Starting February 2023, Mizna Film Series transitions from a monthly film series to quarterly screenings. Screenings will take place exclusively in-person at the Trylon Cinema the fourth Wednesday of the months of February, May, August, and November. Learn more about the Mizna Film Series here. The 2023 Mizna Film Series highlights archival works and initiatives…
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Call for Guest Editor: The Cinema Issue
ABOUT MIZNA Mizna is a critical platform for contemporary literature, film, art, and cultural production centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. For more than twenty years, Mizna has been creating a decolonized cultural space to reflect the expansiveness of our community and to foster exchange, examine ideas, and engage…
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Arab Film Fest Tulsa 2022
The 2022 Arab Film Fest is coming to Tulsa! After a successful debut last year, the festival returns for a second year presenting acclaimed contemporary films from Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Palestine, and more, and featuring special guests, local restaurants, and community partnerships. WHAT: Arab Film Fest Tulsa 2022WHEN: November 3–6, 2022WHERE: Circle Cinema, 10 S.…
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Mizna Film Series Fall 2022: Arab Film Fest Extended
The Mizna Film Series is a monthly selection of programs, marking our first venture into year-round curated film programming. While our annual Film Fest focuses primarily on the works of contemporary artists, the Mizna Film Series provides a space to expand our regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions exploring…
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Mizna Film Series Summer 2022: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige Retrospective
The Mizna Film Series is a monthly selection of programs, marking our first venture into year-round curated film programming. While our annual Film Fest focuses primarily on the works of contemporary artists, the Mizna Film Series provides a space to expand our regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions exploring…
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Luminance: A Tribute to Etel Adnan
This summer, Mizna celebrates the life and legacy of the prolific artist, writer, and philosopher Etel Adnan in a series of film and literary programs. Etel Adnan passed away last year at the age of 96, leaving behind a wealth of prose, poetry, and artworks. Her visual and written works manifest images of joy and…