Tag: film

  • Mizna Film Series Spring 2021: Surveillance

    Mizna Film Series Spring 2021: Surveillance

    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…

  • Soleil Ô and a Transnational Third Cinema
  • Mizna Film Series Winter 2021: Restored Classics

    Mizna Film Series Winter 2021: Restored Classics

    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…

  • Mizna Film Series

    Mizna Film Series

    WHAT: A quarterly SWANA film series presented by Mizna with the Trylon Cinema.WHEN: The fourth Wednesday of February, May, August, and November.WHERE: Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN 55406. TICKETS + PASSES AVAILABLE HERE Mizna Film Series screenings take place exclusively in-person at the Trylon Cinema the fourth Wednesday of the months of…

  • Call for Submissions: 2020 Twin Cities Arab Film Fest

    Call for Submissions: 2020 Twin Cities Arab Film Fest

    Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2020 Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (TCAFF) is seeking films for our upcoming festival scheduled for September 24-27, 2020, as well as our new ongoing monthly film series. We accept narrative, documentary, experimental, animated films of feature and short lengths. We seek films made by Arab or Arab American…

  • Mizna At Home: Virtual Cinema Filmmaker Bios

    Mizna At Home: Virtual Cinema Filmmaker Bios

    Filmmakers included in Mizna’s May Virtual Cinema Series Suliman Elnour (Wa Lakin Alardh Tadur / It Still Rotates / ولكن الأرض تدور) was born in 1947 and is a Sudanese filmmaker and writer. He studied folklore, and African and Asian studies at the University of Khartoum and film at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Moscow. He…

  • Mizna at Home: Virtual Cinema

    Mizna at Home: Virtual Cinema

    From taking our classes online, to presenting a virtual literary reading in March, to this virtual cinema series, we’ve been working to discover how to continue to fulfill our mission to provide a platform for SWANA and Muslim artists during this new reality. SPEED SISTERSMay 13, 6pm CSTFREE • RSVP REQUIRED Amber Fares | Sports…