The 2015 Arab Film Festival in San Diego is coming to the Museum of Photographic Arts on November 20-22. The film line up includes six feature length films and five shorts.
The Festival will open with The Wanted 18, a documentary from Palestine about 18 cows that the Israeli military considered to be a threat to Israeli security.
The Festival will also screen the U.S. Premier of Queens of Syria which tells the story of Syrian women refugees in Jordan who put on a production of the classic Greek Play The Trojan Women about the effects of war on women.
Other feature films include Diaries of a Flying Dog from Lebanon, From A to B fom UAE, Jordan and Lebanon, Silence of the Shepherd from Iraq and Villa Touma from Palestine. Several of the films have won awards at film festivals around the world.
Tonight's screenings:
The Wanted 18 Directed by Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali
The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army?s pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared ?a threat to the national security of the state of Israel.? In response to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, a group of people from the town of Beit Sahour decide to buy 18 cows and produce their own milk as a co-operative. Their venture is so successful that the collective farm becomes a landmark, and the cows local celebrities ? until the Israeli army takes note and declares that the farm is an illegal security threat. Consequently, the dairy is forced to go underground, the cows continuing to produce their ?Intifada milk? with the Israeli army in relentless pursuit.
Scarecrow Directed by Mohammed Salman
A boy?s father leaves the family farm when the crops die to go find work at sea. The boy and his grandfather work together to call the angels to come bless the farm so things can go back to how they were. Through his journey we explore the meaning abandonment and loss.
Admission/Cost: $10, all festival pass $50
Location:
Museum of Photographic Arts
1649 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101
Friday, November 20 - 7:30 PM
For more information, please visit: www.karamanow.org
The Festival will open with The Wanted 18, a documentary from Palestine about 18 cows that the Israeli military considered to be a threat to Israeli security.
The Festival will also screen the U.S. Premier of Queens of Syria which tells the story of Syrian women refugees in Jordan who put on a production of the classic Greek Play The Trojan Women about the effects of war on women.
Other feature films include Diaries of a Flying Dog from Lebanon, From A to B fom UAE, Jordan and Lebanon, Silence of the Shepherd from Iraq and Villa Touma from Palestine. Several of the films have won awards at film festivals around the world.
Tonight's screenings:
The Wanted 18 Directed by Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali
The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army?s pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared ?a threat to the national security of the state of Israel.? In response to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, a group of people from the town of Beit Sahour decide to buy 18 cows and produce their own milk as a co-operative. Their venture is so successful that the collective farm becomes a landmark, and the cows local celebrities ? until the Israeli army takes note and declares that the farm is an illegal security threat. Consequently, the dairy is forced to go underground, the cows continuing to produce their ?Intifada milk? with the Israeli army in relentless pursuit.
Scarecrow Directed by Mohammed Salman
A boy?s father leaves the family farm when the crops die to go find work at sea. The boy and his grandfather work together to call the angels to come bless the farm so things can go back to how they were. Through his journey we explore the meaning abandonment and loss.
Admission/Cost: $10, all festival pass $50
Location:
Museum of Photographic Arts
1649 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101
Friday, November 20 - 7:30 PM
For more information, please visit: www.karamanow.org
