ANA Contemporary Arab Cinema

ANA Contemporary Arab Cinema Contemporary Arab Film Series It is about exciting personal visions, unique talent and great stories.

Curated by Lina Matta, the Channel Director of MBC 2, MBC 4, MBC Max and MBC Variety, ANA, which means “I” in Arabic is an annual films series showcasing the best Arab directors working today. Each year, 12 films, a mix of documentaries and features are hand picked from regional and international festivals and shown at the Jacob Burns Film Center in NY

The series ended with a bang! Another sold-out night with a standby line for the blockbuster political satire VOY VOY VO...
07/19/2024

The series ended with a bang! Another sold-out night with a standby line for the blockbuster political satire VOY VOY VOY. The director Omar Hilal regaled us with hilarious anecdotes from the shoot. The film is based on the true story of the players of blind football team that con their way onto the team only to use the excuse of playing overseas to escape Egypt.
On a personal note, the series is a fab way for us to connect with old friends & relatives & make new ones & to meet the talented filmmakers who are telling our stories of today to a wider global audience.
Thank you BAM Film for hosting us & Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU for hosting the filmmakers. And the audience members who came day after day to watch the movies & support the series.
Can’t wait for 2025!

07/18/2024

Tonight we're closing with the funny and heartwarming Egyptian political satire ! directed by Omar Hilal.
📽 Based on an incredible true story, Voy! Voy! Voy! relates the tale of Hassan, an Egyptian man who dreams of escaping poverty in Cairo, and fakes a visual impairment in order to join a team bound for the Blind Football World Cup in Poland.

🙏🏼 to Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU for their amazing support and for BAM Film and the entire BAM Rose Cinemas staff for their consistent smiling help, their patience and professionalism.

Last night we had another sold-out screening for Ibrahim Nesh’at’s documentary, Hollywoodgate. Ibrahim spent 7 months em...
07/18/2024

Last night we had another sold-out screening for Ibrahim Nesh’at’s documentary, Hollywoodgate. Ibrahim spent 7 months embedded with the Taliban as they uncovered the spoils of war left behind by evacuating US troops and took that equipment to transform themselves from cave fighters to a military machine. Ibrahim joined us for the Q&A after the screening.
BAM Film Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU Lina Matta

In all our years putting on the ANA film series, we’ve never had a standby ticket line. We’ve had films sell out but no ...
07/17/2024

In all our years putting on the ANA film series, we’ve never had a standby ticket line. We’ve had films sell out but no lines.
Until, last night for the screening of Farah Naboulsi's Palestinian film The Teacher! To many more …
Two more nights, and two more awesome films with the directors in attendance. Come to Brooklyn & join in the fun

Days 4 & 5 we traveled from Jordan, to the deserts of Tabuk & the fighting fields of Raqqa with Inshallah a Boy, Hajjan ...
07/16/2024

Days 4 & 5 we traveled from Jordan, to the deserts of Tabuk & the fighting fields of Raqqa with Inshallah a Boy, Hajjan & The Rebel.
Just a few more to go….
If you’re in NY, blink and you’ll miss us.
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday after that it’s see you next year!
BAM FilmHagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU Lina Matta

07/16/2024

Only a few seats left! Tonight's Farah Nabulsi THE TEACHER screening!
📽 A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new relationship with a volunteer worker.
The Teacher is the directorial feature-film debut of Farah Nabulsi, a Palestinian-British filmmaker born, raised, and educated in the UK, whose debut short film, The Present, won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Oscar.

07/15/2024

The Belgian/Moroccan directors of this movie, Adil and Billal are better known for their blockbuster Hollywood movies Bad Boys for Life etc. but they consider Rebel the best movie they ever made. "Rebel focuses on Kamal Wasaki (Aboubakr Bensaihi) an idealistic Belgian rapper who after getting busted for drugs in his home country flees to Syria to volunteer to help the victims of the war. Soon after he is kidnapped by ISIS where he is forced to shoot their propaganda videos thanks to his experience shooting his own hip-hop videos."

07/14/2024

Tonight at 6:30PM we conclude the weekend with this Jordanian gem "Inshallah A Boy" directed by Amjad Al Rasheed
the first-ever Jordanian film to premiere at Cannes, Inshallah a Boy tells the story of Nawal, who faces destitution after the sudden passing of her husband. In order to protect her daughter and save her home from an exploitative brother-in-law taking advantage of Jordan’s patriarchal inheritance laws, Nawal pretends to be pregnant with a son—a deception that grows harder to sustain as time passes, leaving her with a difficult path toward self-determination.

Day 3 was a marathon! Starting with Carol Mansour’s provocative journey of returning her mum’s ashes to her homeland in ...
07/14/2024

Day 3 was a marathon! Starting with Carol Mansour’s provocative journey of returning her mum’s ashes to her homeland in Yafa, to Amr Gemao's emotionally gripping The Burdened المرهقون Amr regalled us after the film with details on filming in Aden & his work on preserving structures & culture on film. The last film of the evening was Hiding Saddam Hussein the audience sat slack-jawed as the farmer who hid Saddam Hussein for 235 days described his ordeal.
Here are a few pictures
BAM Film Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU Lina Matta

07/14/2024

Looking to spend time al fresco with the kids? Abu Bakr Shawky movie Hajjan produced by Film Clinic is a perfect summer escape. 📽 In the highly competitive world of Bedouin camel racing, the younger brother of a jockey killed under mysterious circumstances sets out to restore his family honor in a quest suffused with magical realism.

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