Event
The Middle East Film Festival has been CANCELLED due to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19. It is important to the Middle East Center that we respect and prioritize the health and safety of our community.
See here for Penn's COVID-19 response guidelines.
Penn Middle East Center, in collaboration with Cinema & Media Studies, Jewish Studies, and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, is pleased to present the 2020 edition of New Middle East Cinema.
The festival is free-admission and open to all.
All movies with English subtitles.
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Monday 16 March @ 6:30pm | Syria | Presenter, Huda J. Fakhreddine and Rim Bakir
For Sama
Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, 2019, 1h 40min
For Sama is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
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Tuesday 17 March @ 6:30pm | Israel, Presenter, Nili Gold and Avi Nesher
The Other Story
Avi Nesher, 2019, 1h 52min
Two rebellious young women cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences.
Avi Nesher will hold a Master Class @ 5-6:30pm in 401 Fisher-Bennet Hall, same location of the screening.
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Wednesday 18 March @ 6:30pm | Iran | Presenter, Mahyar Entezari
Sly
Kamal Tabrizi, 2018, 1h 28min
Ghodrat Samadi wants to become a member of parliament, but he has a reputation for recklessness and taking arbitrary action.
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Thursday 19 March @ 6:30pm | Turkey | Presenter, Feride Hatiboglu & Yasemin Celikkol
Sibel
Guillaume Giovanetti & Çagla Zencirci, 2018, 1h 35min
Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language
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Friday 20 March @ 6:30pm | Palestine | Presenter, Ibrahim Miari and Sameh Zoabi
Tel Aviv on Fire
Sameh Zoabi, 2018, 1h 40min
Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier.
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