CLOSING NIGHT! ANA2024 VOY! VOY! VOY!
Tonight we're closing with the funny and heartwarming Egyptian political satire #VOYVOYVOY ! 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.
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.
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."
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.
Looking to spend time al fresco with the kids? Abu Bakr Shawky movie Hajjan produced by Film Clinic is a perfect #NYC 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.
And finally at 9:30PM Hiding Saddam Hussein: A portrait of the man who walked away from $25 million dollars directed by Halkawt Mustafa
At 6:30PM : The Burdened المرهقون - Followed by a Q@A with the director Amr Gamal.
Don't miss Carol Mansour Aida Returns 🎬. Today at 4:30PM!
Join us for tomorrow's Opening Night! #arabmovies #brooklyn #nycsummer Mohammad Kordofani Goodbye Julia Film - فيلم وداعاً جوليا Lina Matta
One of the delights of attending festivals or series, is arriving on Day One, watching the trailer for the first time and seeing it fresh. Then as the days progress and you watch more and more films, you start recognizing the different scenes. I love that sense of tracking how many of the films I've seen and how many more there are left for me to watch before I've "finished them all". For those of you who share that little habit, I'm excited to unveil the trailer for this year's edition of ANA2024. Lina Matta BAM Film Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU Carol Mansour Farah Nabulsi The Burdened المرهقون Cyril Aris Abu Bakr Shawky Amjad Al Rasheed Film Clinic Mohamed Kordofani Halkawt Mustafa #HollywoodGate Feyrouz Serhal #AdilElArbi #BilallFallah
Contemporary Arab Film Series It is about exciting personal visions, unique talent and great stories.
